On 20th June, the Franco-British Society was delighted to host French-Algerian journalist and author Nabila Ramdani talking her recently published book ​“Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic” and a fantastic discussion on current issues in France
and the Franco-British relationship in 2024.
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At Wedlake Bell
8th floor, 71 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4AY 
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A big thank you to Nabila Ramdani for her fascinating talk and to Wedlake Bell for hosting this event.
Book description

A French-Algerian journalist’s stark critique of her crisis-ridden country—how does France work, how did it get here, and how can it change?
France—the romanticised, revolutionary land of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity for all—is failing. Reform is urgently needed. This book is a powerful indictment of the status quo, and a highly original perspective on the challenges to which the nation must rise.
Nabila Ramdani is not from the establishment elite: she is a marginalised insider, born and raised in a neglected Paris suburb. With unflinching clarity, she probes the fault lines of her struggling country, exposing the Fifth Republic as an archaic system which emerged from Algeria’s cataclysmic War of Independence.
Today, a monarchical President Macron shows little interest in democracy, while a far-right party founded by Nazi collaborators threatens to replace him. Segregation, institutionalised rioting, economic injustice, the debasement of women, a monolithic education system, deep-seated racial and religious discrimination, paramilitary policing, terrorism and extremism, and a duplicitous foreign policy all fuel the growing crisis.
Yet Ramdani offers real hope: the broken French Republic can, and must, be fixed.
Nabila Ramdani is a French author of Algerian descent who works as a journalist, academic and broadcaster. 

​Nabila began her award-winning journalistic career in the BBC Paris Bureau. She has since broadcast for outlets including Sky News, Al Jazeera and CNN, and has written extensively for The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Washington Post and others. Educated at Paris VII University and the London School of Economics (LSE), Nabila has taught at the University of Oxford and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.