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Alain Gresh
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “french journalist and the current editor of le monde diplomatique”. Today it says “french communist party leader and journalist”.
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Alain Gresh in 2014 Alain Gresh (born 1948 in Cairo , Egypt ) is a French communist party leader and journalist . He is the former editor of Le Monde Diplomatique . He writes articles mainly on the Islamic world and the Arab world . Alongside his career, he is a Palestinian nationalist activist. De l'importation du conflit israélo-palestinien - Marc Hecker, editions-ellipses (2012), page 41,42,179,394
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french journalist and the current editor of le monde diplomatique
Now
french communist party leader and journalist
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