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Ahmed Youssef, the Egyptian friend

2021-11-28T15:53:31.157Z


PORTRAIT - At 66, this Egyptian journalist and historian is reweaving the historical links between France and his country of origin, from Bonaparte to political Islam. He has just published a book on Captain Bouchard, discoverer of the Rosetta Stone.


Each book, each photo has its story, allows it to draw a thread.

Ahmed Youssef, 66, is a library on his own, a well of knowledge, mixing anecdotes and major political turning points.

Journalist, writer, researcher, emissary of anti-Muslim Brotherhood Egypt… It is difficult to catalog this man who marvelously recounts his career, his passions, his loves and his great figures.

Here, in his office in the beautiful districts of Paris, just next to the tunnel where Lady Diana passed away in the arms of another Egyptian, the man takes us on his conquest of France from the land of the pharaohs, multiplying the digressions on the Napoleonic conquests, trying to channel themselves with greedy

"but that's another story"

Dominique Marny, president of the Cocteau committee, artist whose Egyptian peregrinations Ahmed Youssef told us, had warned us:

"Ahmed, it 's is the little story within the big one.

He is inexhaustible. "

A war of words

But let's keep it short.

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Source: lefigaro

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