Amicale

MEETING CANCELLED 

On Friday, September 29 at 3 pm at the Palais de l'Europe (room 9), the Amicale will have the privilege of welcoming Ahmad Massoud, who will present his book "Notre liberté", accompanied by the writer Olivier Weber who signs the preface.

Son of Ahmed Shah Massoud, a figure of resistance to the Soviet invasion and then to the Taliban, Ahmad Massoud was only 12 years old when he lost his father on September 9, 2001, assassinated by Al-Qaeda agents. After a childhood in Iran and having studied international relations at King's College London, he returned to Afghanistan where he founded the Front for Resistance movement in 2019.

Olivier Weber is a writer, diplomat, former war correspondent and president of the Prix Joseph-Kessel. His travelogues, essays and novels have been translated into a dozen languages. During his career as a senior reporter he visited the Afghan rebels and Commander Massoud several times.

At only 34 years old, Ahmad Massoud represents a real recourse against obscurantism. Heir to the battles led by his father, the famous Lion of Panchir, Ahmad rose to the challenge. Since the fall of Kabul on August 15, 2021, he has launched an Afghan resistance front and advocates the fight against Islamist fanaticism, whose standard-bearers are not only the Taliban but also the militants of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State. This book mixes his portrait, anecdotes, revelations, his vision for his country, his battles for respect for human rights, his advocacy for an Islam of tolerance, far from sectarian ideologies, as well as unpublished facts about his father's life. An essential and salutary book, an ode to freedom.

A signing session is planned at the end of the meeting. Come in large numbers!