Europe 1 4:00 p.m., March 20, 2022
Guest on Sunday on Didier Barbelivien's show "Tell me what you sing", journalist Sonia Mabrouk tells her story through five songs of her choice.
And in particular "Au café des délices", sung by Patrick Bruel.
A song that evokes a place she knew well and echoes her childhood memories.
INTERVIEW
She is a journalist on Europe 1, but it is as a guest of Didier Barbelivien that listeners listen to Sonia Mabrouk on Sunday.
In the show
Tell me what you sing
, it is through the prism of five songs of her choice that she tells herself.
Among Sonia Mabrouk's selection,
Au café des délices
.
"Everyone can find themselves in this song," said the political interviewer at the microphone of Europe 1.
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Sonia Mabrouk specifies what the text of this song, borrowed from nostalgia, can have of universal.
"When you leave a shore, when you leave a port, when you leave a city, a country, a love, when you go to find a love, when you leave a country to find another, you have this feeling of anguish because we leave something, a habit. Sometimes it's comfortable, it's soft. There is an anguish to find something else, "she explains.
The Café des Délices, a very real place
The coffee of delights celebrated in this song, Sonia Marbouk knows it well.
"It's a sublime place, nestled in the village of Sidi Bou Said, which is a typical village in Tunisia, with cobblestones and white houses with blue shutters", she illustrates.
"This café, which has remained the same for years, is a place where generations and generations meet and exchange views."
A link between the generations which is essential in the eyes of the journalist.
"We have talked a lot about our elders lately in France, and unfortunately sometimes with pain. It is important to see that in other cultures, there is precisely this attachment to elders, this attachment to maintaining the link between generations in cafes, in homes", she analyzes.
"The double culture, I carry it"
"The elders play cards, they are with the little children and the whole family. They have the jasmine placed on the corner of the ear", she continues.
"We see women passing by, young women and slightly older women, with this white veil, which we call the sefseri, which is of a mad elegance and which in no way resembles this veil which hides the hair or face. On the contrary, it was a bit of modesty and elegance."
However, Sonia Mabrouk guarantees, her love for this song and the images it evokes is not just nostalgia.
"I believe a lot in the future. It is also the hope of a Tunisia which is always present and which has a very special link with France. For me, when we say dialogue between cultures and religions, it is embodied. It's not an abstraction. Dual culture, I carry it. That's why I often say that I love France as much as my childhood country. Because I have the impression that he's a father and a mother. And you never choose between your parents."