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Stephane Trano (born February 1, 1969 in France) is a French journalist and author, based in New York City, New York. He is specialized in International Politics, Social Issues, Human Rights, and serves as a correspondent for the French newsmagazine Marianne.
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Biographies
Stephane Trano has authored three biographies.
On François Mitterrand, the first entitled Mitterrand, Les Amis D’abord exploring the former French President’s views on friendship and politics; and the second Une Affaire d’Amitie focusing on Mitterrand's family, and particularly on his long-hidden daughter Mazarine Pingeot (who recently renamed herself Mazarine Pingeot-Mitterrand). Pingeot-Mitterrand had never spoken publicly about her father prior to the publication of Trano's book.
The preface was written by Jean Lacouture, the French biographer of General Charles de Gaulle. Jean Lacouture writes: "François Mitterrand, whose public life is arranged traditionally around three or four parties, including one he roughly forged, confided in me that "in politics, everything is a matter of banding together", which could also have been said, of religion, by a general of the Jesuits in their heyday. And when he defined a friend as he in whom nothing, neither Bousquet, nor failure, nor insult, could alter public or private loyalty, he seemed to speak less as a politician or secular moralist than as an adherent of a religious order. Stéphane Trano suggests, line by line, that the reason for the State has reasons other than the reason of the heart. And that loyalty, noble virtue that it is, can be, in the public order, incompatible with the general interest."
The third biography written by Stephane Trano, published in France (November 2013, L'Archipel) is about John Fitzgerald-Kennedy,"a character built by his entourage (...) Appointed by his father to fulfill his own presidential destiny (...), the first politician invented by the new dominant post- war mass media and shaped by marketing." According to the author, the legend of Kennedy was "carefully maintained by censorship and powerfully organized by his family, and then conveyed by historians. However, his diseases (...), his obsession with women, his dangerous relationships, the wandering of his political thought... (...) represent everything America usually hates : concealment , perjury , betrayal, corruption.Fifty years after his death, the best-hidden mystery of the icon of American lies not in his murder, but in a life totally obscured by myth."
Journalism
At the age of 18, Trano's first news articles appeared in the weekly magazine Le Nouvel Observateur (The New Observer), a publication founded in 1950 by philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre in conjunction with former members of the French Resistance movement. He first began as a celebrity lifestyles reporter but soon thereafter became a specialist in political journalism.
From 1991 to 1996, Trano served as Chief Political Editor of the weekly Tribune Juive (Jewish Tribune). Recognized for his accomplishments and ability by the French intellectual community, he became highly sought after by several major publications to report on controversial issues of public interest.
In 1996, Trano became the first Jewish journalist to work under dual Middle East leadership - Palestinian National Authority and Israeli supervision - after being appointed as Chief Editor of the short-lived Palestinian Economic Newsletter. This monthly publication aimed to promote economic development in the Gaza Strip and West Bank in accordance with the Oslo Accords of 1993. With a circulation of 15,000, it was published in English, French and Arabic. Yasser Arafat wrote the editorial for the first issue of the Palestinian Economic Newsletter when it was published in June, 1996. The Palestinian Economic Newsletter was published for seven months.
Political advisory
Trano has served in a multitude of prominent political advisory roles such as:
In 2005-2006, Trano was Director of Online Communications and author for Jack Lang, President of the Arab World Institute, former NATO-based French anti-piracy expert and French Minister of Culture and Communications from 1981-1995.
He has received increasing attention for his contributions to public debate by questioning in many articles:
His work has been quoted often by experts:
Other contributions with excerpts from columns
Member
International Federation of Journalists
Society of Professional Journalists
National Writers Union
American Society of Access Professionals