Author: Yassir

Journalist, author and documentary filmmaker, Yassir Guelzim has spent more than twenty-five years working across print media, radio, television and documentary production. The constant thread running through his career has been a commitment to decoding political dynamics, societies in transition, and the fractures shaping the contemporary world. A contributor to *Le Courrier de l’Atlas* since 2017, he also worked as a journalist for nearly fifteen years at LCI, as well as for France 3, RMC Moyen-Orient–RFI, France Inter and France Culture, covering among other subjects the 2002 Moroccan elections and a wide range of issues related to the Arab world and the Mediterranean region. Over time, his work expanded into writing and documentary filmmaking. Co-author and co-director of *L’Archipel des Français Libres* (*France 5*, 2021), he explores maritime memory and lesser-known chapters of French history. The book adapted from the documentary received a special mention from the jury of the Prix Étienne Taillemite in 2023. In 2024, he also directed *American Prohibition, A French Windfall*, broadcast on *France 5*, alongside a companion book to be published by Éditions Mon Autre France in October 2026. Founder of the production company Mediterranean Press TV News Production, which he led for ten years, he produced reports and documentaries broadcast on Arte, France 24, Al Jazeera and Sky News Arabic. A graduate of the Department of Political Science at Paris-Sorbonne University and of the University of Economics of Montpellier I, Yassir Guelzim combines analytical insight, economic expertise and narrative rigor. Specializing in economics while also covering political, geopolitical and societal issues, his articles and interviews examine power relations, political identities and geopolitical transformations, with particular attention to Morocco, Africa, the Middle East and Mediterranean societies.