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The will to see : dispatches from a world of misery and hope / Bernard-Henri Lévy.

by Lévy, Bernard-Henri.

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Yale University Press, 2021.

Disaster relief.

Humanitarian assistance.

Alternate title:

Dispatches from a world of misery and hope

201 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes index.

"Previous versions of the dispatches in part 2 originally appeared in French in Paris Match and in English in the Wall Street Journal. English translation by Steven B. Kennedy."--T. p. verso.

In English, some chapters translated from French.

"Over the past fifty years, renowned public intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy has reported extensively on human rights abuses around the world. This new book follows the intrepid Levy into eight international hotspots-in Nigeria; Syrian and Iraqi Kurdistan; Ukraine; Somalia; Bangladesh; Lesbos, Greece; Libya; and Afghanistan-that have escaped global attention or active response. On a deeply personal introduction, Levy recounts the intellectual journey that led him to advocacy, arguing that a truly humanist philosophy must necessarily lead to action in defense of the most vulnerable. In the second section, he reports on the eight investigative trips he undertook just before or during the coronavirus pandemic, from the massacred Christian villages in Nigeria to a dangerously fragile Afghanistan on the eve of the Taliban talks, from an anti-Semitic ambush in Libya to the overrun refugee camp on the island of Lesbos. Part manifesto, part missives from the field, this new book is a stirring rebuke to indifference and an exhortation to level our gaze at those most hidden from us."

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