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Half the Sky: La Moitié du Ciel available in France


By Sama Team | April 26, 2010


On March 4, CARE presented its Half the Sky event in nearly 500 movie theatres across the United States, a one-night event inspired by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof’s and Sheryl WuDunn’s New York Times bestseller, “Half The Sky” which follows the stories of extraordinary women around the world as they struggle to overcome oppression. Kristof and WuDunn focus on three major problems facing women: sex trafficking, maternal mortality and violence against women.

An event and a subject worth supporting, so we decided to publish a banner on the homepage of the Sama Gazette announcing the event to our readers living in North America, and we also tweeted about it.

Some of our French readers who of course couldn't attend the one night event in the United States, contacted us about this event and wanted to know if a DVD would be released. We contacted CARE about it and the answer was they 'were not yet sure about future showings of Half the Sky or a DVD'. But the good news is the book published by Les Arènes, is now available in France. Seven months after it was released in the United States, La Moitié du Ciel was released on April 9, 2010 and you can buy the book on Amazon.fr for 20 euros.

It is not the first time we mention the book on the Sama Gazette, Max Dana recommended it on her post: International Women’s Day: Extraordinary Women. We bought the English edition and read it and it's very likely we will buy the French version. We invite you to do the same since it is a well researched and well written book, and it is definitely a must read for anyone who cares about women's rights.

The full title of the book tells it all: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Learn more on Half the Sky Movement and spread the word!




#1


Sama Reader Laurent

This book sounds very interesting. I discovered Nicholas Kristof when the Sama Gazette published their Favorites Tweets @NickKristof and since then I read his posts and his tweets.

I think I will buy the book, thanks for the info!

Monday, April 26, 2010 at 5:25 pm

#2


Sama Reader Juliette

I’m just like you Laurent, maybe it’s because he’s American and not French. But hopefully we can hear about him on the Gazette ;)

I remember the post of Max about International Women’s Day but even if I can send comments in English, I don’t speak it well enough to read an entire book. So the French edition is the perfect occasion to buy it!

Monday, April 26, 2010 at 5:41 pm

#3


Sama Reader Witz

Kristof is in South Sudan right now. He travels a lot and he has always a lot to say. Great journalist.

Monday, April 26, 2010 at 6:03 pm

#4


Sama Reader Moshuo

I’m also interesting by the book but how comes nobody talks about it in France? The only place I read about Half the Sky is on the Sama Gazette! This book is very serious and it treats an important subject.

Anyway, it’s only 20 euros, I’ll get it, thanks ;)

Bises
Moshuo

Monday, April 26, 2010 at 6:16 pm

#5


Sama Reader Gino

I follow him on Twitter since the Twitter Sunday Favorites Tweets @NickKristof and his stories are terrific! Will the book be translated in Italian by any chance? :roll:

Monday, April 26, 2010 at 7:59 pm

#6


Sama Reader KalieMero

KalieMero

Enfin ! Merci la Sama Gazette :)

Monday, April 26, 2010 at 9:20 pm

#7


Sama Reader Thomas

Good! Please tell us if a DVD is released.

Monday, April 26, 2010 at 9:35 pm

#8


Sama Reader Muzzi

OMG! the Gazette should get money on every book sold ;)

Monday, April 26, 2010 at 11:02 pm

#9


Sama Reader Josh

Yeah I was just thinking the same Muzzi.

I like the French translation La moitie du ciel

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 12:47 am

#10


Sama Reader BettyKohn

Exactly, they should get paid a commission on every sale generated from this website. I’m serious, the Sama Gazette does a great work telling people about everything interesting about Human Rights.

I’m not kidding. ;)

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 4:18 am

#11


Sama Reader DarkFUY

DarkFUY

My mom read the book and she said it blew her mind wide open.. :roll:

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 6:23 am

#12


Sama Reader JohnnieW

There should be other showings, if you missed the one night event then you missed it forever, not fair :)

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 7:30 am

#13


Sama Reader ErickNO

ErickNO

I wanted to order the book but I forgot to. In fact I was hoping it will be translated in Norwegian but I think it won’t happen. So I will order the English book (my French is even worse than my English ;) ).

I will tell you what I think about the book. If the Sama Team and Max recommend it then I am sure it must be really good!

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 8:54 am

#14


Sama Reader Simcha

No way the book is translated into Hebrew neither :P

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 10:06 am

#15


Sama Reader Arnold

Well, my sweet Juliette has just bought the book but I’m not a reader so I hope one day they will release a DVD. She will tell me the stories :)

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 1:12 pm

#16


Sama Reader gloria

gloria

arnold you’re a lazy guy, reading a book is not that hard!

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 1:27 pm

#17


Sama Reader Juliette

Don’t worry, I’m used to read books and then tell Arnold what it was about. The only books Arnold reads are magazines about cars :roll:

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 2:01 pm

#18


Sama Reader Thomas

I’m a movie guy and I’m like Arnold, I usually don’t read books. :oops:
I really hope a DVD will be released.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 3:49 pm



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