“Me, Mélanie, French and Muslim…
This title was close to my heart because I wanted by these words to show that there is no contradiction between these terms, nor incompatibility. Neither in words, nor in my heart.
I am French and Muslim, I have roots and wings. »

Far from anger and violence, Mélanie lives respect, openness and appeasement in today's multicultural France. She follows her spiritual path, takes us on a journey to distant lands, and into her heart. She confides her joys and her difficulties of being a veiled woman in her country and recalls how faith softened her and healed her wounds. Mélanie also devotes herself to her life as a young mother and woman, which has great joys in store for her, but also hardships. Because the road to happiness is sometimes long.
She also reconnects with relatives whom her conversion had estranged from her; she gets closer to her mother, and especially finds her father, the great absentee of her youth.

All dressed in green, serene and smiling, Mélanie Georgiadès, alias Diam's under the limelight of which she left the blinding light, confided, without make-up, in the program "Sept à Huit" of TF1, Sunday 24 may.

After the attacks in January which shook her badly, the new Mélanie, mother of a fulfilled family, who hides nothing of her divorce and her remarriage, has once again found in writing a refuge and an outlet for her intertwined feelings. , culminating in a second autobiographical opus: “Mélanie, French and Muslim”.

"I condemn with all my strength what happened", "For me, these are lost small groups", she blames the evocation of Daesh, during an exclusive interview where she wanted to restore the truth about Islam, saying she is deeply shocked by the filthy cartoons of Charlie Hebdo, while defending her views as a fully veiled Muslim woman in a society that has made the veil, whatever its length, the bogeyman absolute of the Republic. (source: oumma.com)

The latest Diam's just came out today, but you're not ready to listen to it. And for good reason… try to put your ear to a book, you won't even hear the sea. In “Mélanie Française et Moslem” Mélanie – Diam's first name – definitely buries the singer inside her. Already in her previous book “Autobiography” she explained what happened to her conversion to Islam and her exit from the musical field. It is true that we had all been shaken by these stolen photos at the exit of a mosque where we saw the one who was still a singer wearing not the hijab, the small discreet scarf, but downright the double veil of shock. In 2012 she was already on the show "Sept à Huit" to explain her conversion and her withdrawal from showbiz. Three years later it's all over again...same show, same channel, same goal but a new book where...she tells herself explaining her conversion and her withdrawal from showbiz. Bis repetita non placent, so she also speaks about the Charlie Hebdo attack which she condemns, the rise of Islamophobia - and not Islamism? - and on her divorce followed by the birth of her second child . Divorce is not insignificant, it's a way for Mélanie to get her message across: a veiled Muslim woman can be independent…in France. Because in many countries it's not the same trip Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Brunei and others are light years away from gender equality. Diam's also explains that rapping is too vulgar and therefore incompatible with his faith. She also explains that she can't stand seeing herself again in her old clips… well if I remember correctly, Diam's clips were far from being sassy like those of Beyoncé or Riri. It is true on the other hand that towards the end, just before she stopped rapping, she was already no longer kissing the boys and singing with a cap screwed on her head. This is of course a bygone era. However, knowing that Cat Stevens has metamorphosed into Yusuf Islam while continuing to sing “impious” songs, one wonders what is holding Mélanie Georgiades back…and then one says to oneself that, decidedly, the Diam's are not eternal. (source: gonzomusic.fr)