69 Notable alumni of
University of Paris 8
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The University of Paris 8 is 563rd in the world, 206th in Europe, and 16th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 69 notable alumni from the University of Paris 8 sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Gaspard Ulliel
- Occupations
- actormodel
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Gaspard Thomas Ulliel was a French actor. He was known for having portrayed the young Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal Rising (2007), fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in the biopic Saint Laurent (2014), and for being the face of Chanel men's fragrance Bleu de Chanel for twelve years. He also voiced Jack Frost in the French version of Rise of the Guardians (2012), and portrayed Anton Mogart in the Disney+ miniseries Moon Knight (2022).
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Slavoj Žižek
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 8
- In 1986 graduated with doctorate in France in philosophy
- Occupations
- essayistopinion journalistsociologistpoliticianpsychoanalyst
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Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana's Department of Philosophy. He primarily works on continental philosophy (particularly Hegelianism, psychoanalysis and Marxism) and political theory, as well as film criticism and theology.
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Julia Kristeva
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 8
- In 1973 graduated with doctorate in France
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- writerpsychoanalystuniversity teacherlinguistphilosopher
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Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, semiotician, psychoanalyst, feminist, and novelist who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She has taught at Columbia University, and is now a professor emerita at Université Paris Cité. The author of more than 30 books, including Powers of Horror, Tales of Love, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia, Proust and the Sense of Time, and the trilogy Female Genius, she has been awarded Commander of the Legion of Honor, Commander of the Order of Merit, the Holberg International Memorial Prize, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Vision 97 Foundation Prize, awarded by the Havel Foundation.
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Clémentine Autain
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 8
- Graduated with French university master in study of history
- Occupations
- journalistwriterchild actorpolitician
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Clémentine Autain is a French politician and journalist who has represented the 11th constituency of the Seine-Saint-Denis department in the National Assembly since 2017. She is a member of La France Insoumise (LFI).
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Cédric Klapisch
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- film directorscreenwriterfilm actoractorfilm producer
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Cédric Klapisch is a French film director, screenwriter and producer.
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Christophe Willem
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- recording artistpoetcomposersinger
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Christophe Frédéric Durier, better known by his stage name Christophe Willem ( French: [kʁistɔf wilɛm]), is a French singer and the winner of the fourth edition of Nouvelle Star (French version of Pop Idol) in 2006.
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Mohed Altrad
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- businesspersonrugby union executivewriter
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Mohed Altrad is a French-Syrian billionaire businessman, rugby chairman and writer, born c. March 1948. He was born to a very young mother and his Bedouin father gave him away to his grandparents at age four following his mother's death. In 2015, Altrad was named Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Of The Year.
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Zoé Félix
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- film actoractor
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Zoé Félix is a French actress.
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Claudia Tagbo
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- comedianactorfilm actor
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Claudia Tagbo is a French-Ivorian actress, comedian and TV personality.
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Élisabeth Roudinesco
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 8
- In 1975 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Élisabeth Roudinesco is a French scholar, historian and psychoanalyst. She conducts a seminar on the history of psychoanalysis at the École Normale Supérieure.
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Alfredo Bryce Echenique
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- lawyernovelistwriterpoet lawyer
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Alfredo Bryce Echenique is a Peruvian writer born in Lima. He has written numerous books and short stories.
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Guillaume Kigbafori Soro
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- politician
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Guillaume Kigbafori Soro is an Ivorian politician who was the Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from April 2007 to March 2012. Prior to his service as Prime Minister, Soro led the Patriotic Movement of Côte d'Ivoire, and later the New Forces as its Secretary-General. In March 2012, Soro became President of the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire. He stepped down from that position in February 2019, announcing in June 2019 that he is running to succeed President Alassane Ouattara.
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Santiago Auserón
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- translatorrecord producersingerguitarist
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Santiago Auserón, also known as Juan Perro is a Spanish singer and lyricist. He was songwriter and vocalist of Spanish rock's Radio Futura. Auserón has been recognized with the Aragón Music Prize for Career Trajectory in 2017, Cubadisco Prize for the Best International Album in 2017 and Aragón Music Prize for the Best Soloist 2019.
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Esther Benbassa
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- historianwriteruniversity teacherJudaic scholarpolitician
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Esther Benbassa is a French-Turkish-Israeli historian and politician. She specializes in the history of Jews and other minorities. Since 2011, Benbassa has served as a French senator, representing Paris from 2017 onwards and Val-de-Marne from 2011 to 2017.
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Karl Olive
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 8
- Studied in 1988-1991
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
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Karl Olive is a French sports journalist, television producer, entrepreneur and politician who has represented the 12th constituency of the Yvelines department in the National Assembly since 2022. He is a former member of The Republicans (LR), which he left in 2019 prior to joining La République En Marche! (LREM, now Renaissance) in 2022.
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Chokri Belaïd
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- politicianlawyer
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Chokri Belaïd, also transliterated as Shokri Belaïd, was a Tunisian politician and lawyer who was an opposition leader with the left-secular Democratic Patriots' Movement. Belaïd was a vocal critic of the Ben Ali regime prior to the 2011 Tunisian revolution and of the then Islamist-led Tunisian government. On 6 February 2013, he was fatally shot outside his house in El Menzah, close to the Tunisian capital, Tunis. As a result of his assassination, Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali announced his plan to dissolve the existing national government and to form a temporary "national unity" government.
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Franck Lepage
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- activist
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Franck Lepage is one of the founders of Workers' co-operative of popular education 'Le Pavé' in France. Franck was an activist of popular education, until 2000 director of programs at the French Federation of Youth and Culture Centers and associate research fellow at the National Institute of Youth and Popular Education..
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Nadav Lapid
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- film actorwriterliterary criticscreenwriterjournalist
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Nadav Lapid is an Israeli screenwriter and film director. Film critics consider him to be among the most internationally acclaimed filmmakers from Israel.
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Jérôme Fourquet
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- political analystpollsterpolitical scientist
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Jérôme Fourquet is a French political scientist who specialises in the study of opinion polling. Since 2011, he has been the director of the "Public opinion and corporate strategy" department at the French polling organisation Institut français d'opinion publique (IFOP).
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Frédéric Encel
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 8
- In 1997 graduated with doctorate in France in geopolitics
- Occupations
- geopolitical analyst
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Frédéric Encel is a French writer and scholar of geopolitics. He received his DEA in geopolitics from the Centre of Geopolitical Analysis and Research (known in French as the Centre de recherches et d’analyses géopolitiques) at the University of Paris VIII in 1992. He remained there studying under Yves Lacoste and earned his doctorate in geopolitics in 1997. He teaches international relations at the ESG Management School. He frequently points out the Iranian danger in French press.
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Lauren Bastide
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 8
- Studied in 2017
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- radio producertelevision columnistwomen's rights activistradio personalityjournalist
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Lauren Bastide is a French journalist, feminist, podcaster, spokesperson for the better representation of women and an activist on intersectional feminism.
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Dounia Bouzar
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- sociologistanthropologistwriter
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Dominique Hélène Bouzar, better known as Dounia Bouzar, is a French anthropologist, writer and educator who has worked towards better acceptance of Muslims, especially Muslim women, in France. She has held high-level posts where she has contributed to promoting the understanding of Muslims but has not always seen eye to eye with the authorities.
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Faïza Guène
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- film directorwriterscreenwriteractor
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Faïza Guène is a French writer and director, best known for her two novels, Kiffe kiffe demain and Du rêve pour les oufs. She has also directed several short films, including Rien que des mots (2004).
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Alain Deneault
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 8
- In 2004 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- philosopheruniversity teachernon-fiction writeressayist
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Alain Deneault is a French Canadian author from Quebec. He is known for his book Noir Canada: Pillage, corruption et criminalité en Afrique and the legal proceedings that followed its publishing.
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Katell Quillévéré
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 8
- Graduated with diplôme d'études approfondies
- Occupations
- wardrobe masterfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Katell Quillévéré is a French filmmaker.
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Merwan Rim
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- actorsinger-songwritercomposer
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Merwan Rim is a French actor and singer-songwriter.
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Pascal Dusapin
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- composeramateur photographeropera composer
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Pascal Georges Dusapin is a French composer. His music is marked by its microtonality, tension, and energy.
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Régis Loisel
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- comics artistcomics creatorcaricaturistillustrator
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Régis Loisel is a French cartoonist, best known for the series La Quête de l'oiseau du temps, written by Serge Le Tendre.
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Princess Elia Zaharia
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- actorsingertelevision presenter
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Elia, Princess of Albania is an Albanian actress, former singer and wife of Leka, Prince of Albania. They married on 8 October 2016 in Tirana.
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Hèctor Parra Esteve
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 8
- Graduated with diplôme d'études approfondies
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Hèctor Parra i Esteve is a Spanish composer. Since 2002 he has lived in Paris.
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Bénédicte Savoy
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 8
- In 2000 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- art historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Bénédicte Savoy is a French art historian, specialising in the critical enquiry of the provenance of works of art, including looted art and other forms of illegally acquired cultural objects.
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Wu Chih-chung
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 59)
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 8
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- research fellowuniversity teacherpolitical scientistdiplomat
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Wu Chih-chung is a Taiwanese politician. He has been the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Executive Yuan since 20 May 2016, and has later become the Diplomatic Representative from Taiwan in France since 16 July 2018.
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Malamine Koné
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- fashion designerbusinesspersonboxer
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Malamine Koné is a Malian and French entrepreneur. He is the founder of the sportswear brand Airness. Koné arrived in France at the age of 10 and was raised in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis. Koné became a boxer but his boxing career was cut short after a road accident in 1995. Koné then turned his attention to the fashion business.
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Jean-Christophe Attias
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- Hebraisthistoriandirector of studiesphilosopher
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Jean-Christophe Attias is a French historian and scholar. He was born to an Algerian Jewish father and a Catholic mother from the Charente.
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Ahmed Benchemsi
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- writerjournalist
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Ahmed Reda Benchemsi is a Moroccan journalist. He is the founder and was the publisher and editor of TelQuel and Nichane magazines.
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Hubert Sauper
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- cinematographerfilm directorscreenwriterdocumentary filmmaker
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Hubert Sauper is an Austrian documentary filmmaker, director, writer, producer, and actor best known for the highly controversial Darwin's Nightmare (2004) which was nominated for an Academy Award.
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Jean-Jacques Lebel
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- translatorpoetpainterfilm directoropinion journalist
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Jean-Jacques Lebel is a French visual artist, poet, art collector, writer, political activist, and creator of performance art happening art events. Besides his heterogeneous artworks and poetry, Lebel is also known for his very early work with the Beat Generation and Happenings, as an art theory writer with close ties to Félix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze and the American poetry and art scene. He is also an art curator and son of Robert Lebel; a poet, translator, poetry publisher, political activist, art collector, art historian and expert in the work of Marcel Duchamp.
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Pascale Boistard
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- politician
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Pascale Boistard is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who served as State Secretary for Women's Rights. She represented the Somme's 1st constituency in the National Assembly of France.
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André Juillard
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- comics writerillustratorcaricaturist
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André Juillard is a French comic book creator.
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Aristides Gomes
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- 1954-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Aristides Gomes is a Bissau-Guinean politician who was the Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau from 8 November 2019 until 28 February 2020. He previously served as Prime Minister from April 2018 to October 2019, and again from 2 November 2005 to 13 April 2007. He has subsequently served as President of the Republican Party for Independence and Development (PRID).
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Dani Kouyaté
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- screenwriterfilm director
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Dani Kouyaté is a film director and griot from Burkina Faso, which the BBC describes as "Africa's most important film-making country".
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Daniel Goossens
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- senior lecturercomics artistartificial intelligence researcher
- Biography
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Daniel Goossens, born 16 May 1954 in Salon-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône is a French comics artist.
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Ornela Vorpsi
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- painterphotographerwriter
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Ornela Vorpsi, is an Albanian writer and photographer from the Vorpsi family in Tirana. Ornela studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan, and has been living and working in Paris since 1997. In 2012 she was named one of the 35 best writers of Europe in Best European Fiction by Aleksander Hemon and Zadie Smith.
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Fatima Daas
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- writer
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Fatima Daas is a French-Algerian writer. Her debut novel, The Last One (French: La Petite Dernière), follows the life of a young Muslim woman as she explores her sexuality, religion, and relationships while living in Clichy-sous-Bois, a suburb of Paris.
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Jean François Mbaye
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- politicianjurist
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Jean François Mbaye is a French politician of La République En Marche! who served as a member of the French National Assembly from 2017 to 2022, representing the department of Val-de-Marne.
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Cheikh Tidiane Gadio
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- diplomatjournalistpolitician
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Cheikh Tidiane Gadio is a Pan African political figure and diplomat who has held prominent positions on the African continent over the last two decades. He served as a special envoy on matters of conflict prevention and resolution in Africa, including Special Envoy of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) to Mali (September 2020 – present), Special Envoy for the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for the Central African Republique (February 2014 – March 2017), and Special Representative for Africa for the Secretary General of OIC (January 2016 – March 2017).
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Claude Pujade-Renaud
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- children's writerwriterpoet
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Claude Pujade-Renaud is a French writer, whose first novel Le Ventriloque appeared in 1978. Since that time she has published over twenty novels, short-story and poetry collections, as well as combined creative works with long-time partner Daniel Zimmermann. She won the prix Goncourt des lycéens in 1994 for Belle mère, her novel on stepmothering, and is a recipient of the French Writer's Guild Prize for her life's work.
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Serge Le Tendre
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- comics writer
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Serge Le Tendre is a French comics writer known from his collaborations with Régis Loisel, Pierre Makyo, Christian Rossi and TaDuc. He wrote a number of series together with Rodolphe.
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Michal Govrin
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- writerpoet
- Biography
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Michal Govrin is an Israeli author, poet and theater director.
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Abla Farhoud
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- novelistwriterplaywright
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Abla Farhoud was a Lebanese-born Canadian writer who lived in Quebec.
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Max Petterson
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- actor
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Max Petterson Monteiro (Farias Brito, Ceará, Brazil born (January 16, 1994) is a Brazilian actor, YouTuber, entrepreneur and comedian. He currently lives in Paris, France. Max Petterson is known for moving to France in 2014 after getting a place at the Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis and documenting life in Paris on YouTube, with over 33 million views. Max received the most repercussions with a viral video about the heat in France.
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Aicha Belarbi
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 8
- In 1987 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- diplomatsociologistpolitician
- Biography
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Aïcha Belarbi is a Moroccan sociologist, women's rights activist and diplomat. She was ambassador to the European Union from 2000 to 2008.
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Nicolas Tournadre
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 65)
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 8
- In 2002 graduated with habilitation
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- tibetologistuniversity teachertranslatorresearch fellowlinguist
- Biography
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Nicolas Tournadre is a professor at the University of Provence specializing in morphosyntax and typology. He is a member of the LACITO lab of the CNRS.
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Tariq Teguia
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- film directorwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Tariq Teguia is an Algerian film director, screenwriter and producer.
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Hamid Tibouchi
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- painterwriterpoet
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Hamid Tibouchi is an Algerian painter and poet, born in 1951 Tibane, near Bejaia in the Kabylie region. He began painting at the age of ten and began writing in 1966. He studied at the High School in Kouba and became a friend of Taher Djaout, and taught English for a while near Algiers.
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Guy Berthiaume
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 8
- Studied in 1976
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- historianmentoruniversity teacherarchivist
- Biography
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Guy Berthiaume is Librarian and Archivist of Canada Emeritus. A Canadian historian specialized in the study of Classical Antiquity, he served as chair and chief executive officer of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec from June 22, 2009, to June 21, 2014, and, from June 23, 2014, to August 29, 2019, he served as Librarian and Archivist of Canada.
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Marina Cavazzana
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- physicianresearcher
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Marina Cavazzana is a professor of Paediatric Immunology at the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital and the Imagine Institute, as well as an academic at Paris Descartes University. She was awarded the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize in 2012 and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.
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Frédéric Regard
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 8
- In 1989 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- professeur des universitéswriterscholar of Englishuniversity teacherliterary historian
- Biography
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Frédéric Regard is a professor of English Literature at Paris-Sorbonne University, where he teaches 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century literature and literary theory. He is a specialist in gender studies in France.
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Cristian Dumitrescu
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- politicianlawyereconomist
- Biography
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Cristian-Sorin Dumitrescu is a Romanian politician.
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Alain Bui
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teacherresearch fellow
- Biography
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Alain Bui is a French academic who's specialized in information technology, and the current president of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University.
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Pierre Pica
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 8
- 1984-2000 graduated with doctorate in linguistics
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- linguist
- Biography
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Pierre Pica, is a research associate (Chargé de Recherche) at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris. Associated Professor with the Brain Institute of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, he is a specialist in theoretical linguistics and more specifically of comparative syntax.
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Kiyémis
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- writerpoetactivistbloggerpodcaster
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Kiyémis is a militant French Afro-feminist, poet and lecturer. The name she uses is a pseudonym, combining the first name of her mother with that of her grandmother. Realizing during the 2005 French riots that the police were treating Black people differently from the native French, she became interested in supporting their rights. In 2012, while at university she began to contribute to Twitter and two years later launched her popular blog Les Bavardages de Kiyémis (Chat by Kiyémis). Her collection of poetry, À nos humanités révoltées (To Our Outraged Kinsfolk), was first published in Toulouse in 2018 and republished by Premiers Matins in 2020 with a supportive introduction by Gerty Dambury.
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Petros Pizanias
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- journalisthistorianwriteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Petros Th. Pizanias is an emeritus professor of history of the Ionian University.
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Joëlle Morosoli
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Joëlle Morosoli is a French-Canadian sculptor of French and Swiss descent. Her work takes the form either of installations or of architecturally integrated art in public buildings. Most of her works have moving parts, driven by mechanical systems.
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Rama Thiaw
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 8
- Graduated with licence
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Rama Thiaw is a Senegalese filmmaker and screenwriter. She is known for her 2009 documentary Boul Fallé, la Voie de la lutte and her most recent documentary The Revolution Won’t be Televised (2016).
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Richard Kayne
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 80)
- Enrolled in the University of Paris 8
- In 1976 graduated with doctorate in France in humanities
- Occupations
- linguistuniversity teachermathematician
- Biography
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Richard Stanley Kayne is Professor of Linguistics in the Linguistics Department at New York University.
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Stéphane de Gérando
- Occupations
- musicologistcomposerconductor
- Biography
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Stéphane de Gérando is a French composer, conductor, multimedia artist, and researcher.
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Nathalie Amoratti-Blanc
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nathalie Amoratti-Blanc is a Monegasque politician. She is a national councilor and the president of the Commission on Women's and Family Rights in the National Council of Monaco.
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Alcinda Honwana
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- anthropologistacademic
- Biography
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Alcinda Manuel Honwana is a Mozambican anthropologist who is a Centennial Professor and the Strategic Director of the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research considers young people, social movements, political protests and social change. She served as a Senior Adviser for the United Nations in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
