The story of Eric Rouleau’s “fantastic career” - AUCPress
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On a recent trip to Egypt, Cairo-born Alain Gresh, former editor in chief of Le Monde diplomatique, author of the foreword to Truths and Lies in the Middle East: Memoirs of a Veteran Journalist, 1952–2012 by Eric Rouleau (AUC Press, 2019), gave a talk about “the fantastic career” of his friend Rouleau, “the best-known French and international journalist in the Middle East.”
A young Egyptian Jew, Rouleau was exiled from Egypt in late 1951, shortly after the Free Officers coup, and moved to France. He rose to become one of the most celebrated journalists of his generation, writing for Agence France-Presse and later, Le Monde, the leading French daily. In 1963, he was invited by Gamal Abd al-Nasser to interview him in Cairo.