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Rémy Ourdan

Rémy Ourdan

French journalist


Rémy Ourdan is a French journalist, war correspondent for the newspaper Le Monde, and documentary filmmaker.

Biography

Journalism

Rémy Ourdan began as a reporter in 1992 in besieged Sarajevo. He covers for three decades the main conflicts in the world, as well as post-war, human rights and international justice issues. He also continues his long-term work on Sarajevo.

Film

Rémy Ourdan is the director of the documentary film The Siege[1][2] (co-directed with Patrick Chauvel, Agat Films & Cie, 2016).[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Various Publications

  • "Après-guerre(s)" (foreword & "Sarajevo, après le siège"), edited by Rémy Ourdan, Autrement, Paris, 2001[10]
  • "A War, and Ricochets" ("WAR", VII, "WAR", de.MO, New York, 2003)[11][12]
  • "America vs Al Qaeda : A Foe's Best Friend" (Dispatches, "Beyond Iraq", 2008)[13][14]
  • "Le Monde, les grands reportages 1944-2009" (Les Arènes, Paris, 2009)[15]
  • "Sarajevo, a love story"[16] (foreword & "Soldier's Words", "Bosnia 1992-1995", edited by Jon Jones, Sarajevo, 2012)[17]
  • "Le Monde, les grands reportages 1944-2012" (Pocket, Paris, 2012)[18]
  • "Première nuit à Sarajevo" ("Robert Capa - 100 photos pour la liberté de la presse", Reporters Sans Frontières, Paris, 2015)[19]
  • "Partez ou vous allez tous mourir" (introduction, Bruno Philip, "Aung San Suu Khi, l’icône fracassée", Les Equateurs, Paris, 2017)[20]

Other

Rémy Ourdan organized on April 6, 2012, for the 20th anniversary of the war in Bosnia, a reunion called "Sarajevo 2012",[21][22] for which hundreds of war reporters came back to Sarajevo.[23] He published, with Jon Jones and Gary Knight, the photo book Bosnia 1992-1995 (edited by Jon Jones, 2012),[24] for which he wrote the foreword Sarajevo, a love story.[25]

Rémy Ourdan is a co-founder and was the first director of the WARM Foundation on contemporary conflicts[26] (2012-2019),[27] based in Sarajevo.[28][29][30]

Awards


References

  1. "The Siege – Remy Ourdan". Retrieved 2023-04-18.
  2. "Press – Remy Ourdan". Retrieved 2023-04-18.
  3. Aurélie Charon, "Sarajevo mon amour (ljubavi moja) avec Rémy Ourdan", France Culture, Backstage http://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/backstage/numero-34-sarajevo-mon-amour-ljubavi-moja-avec-remy-ourdan
  4. Pierre Hazan, "Sarajevo Documentary Shows Culture as an Act of Resistance", Justice Info http://www.justiceinfo.net/en/justice-reconciliation/27086-sarajevo-documentary-shows-culture-as-an-act-of-resistance.doc
  5. "VII "War" – Remy Ourdan". Retrieved 2023-04-18.
  6. "Bosnia 1992-1995 | Warm Foundation". www.warmfoundation.org. Retrieved 2023-04-18.
  7. "Sarajevo 2012 | Warm Foundation". www.warmfoundation.org. Retrieved 2023-04-18.
  8. "The Cutting Edge News". www.thecuttingedgenews.com. Retrieved 2023-04-18.
  9. "Bosnia 1992-1995 | Warm Foundation". www.warmfoundation.org. Retrieved 2023-04-18.
  10. "Warm Foundation". www.warmfoundation.org. Retrieved 2023-04-18.
  11. "Damir Šagolj new director of the WARM Foundation | Warm Foundation". www.warmfoundation.org. 13 March 2020. Retrieved 2023-04-18.
  12. Dzidic, Denis (2013-04-09). "War Reporters' Network Launches in Sarajevo". Balkan Insight. Retrieved 2023-04-18.
  13. "The WARM Foundation: Telling the Story of Modern War". HuffPost. 2013-09-04. Retrieved 2023-04-18.
  14. "Telling Their Story: Reflections on War". Balkan Diskurs. 2015-05-12. Retrieved 2023-04-18.

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