I regularly engage with the media through the Press, Radio and TV. According to Flinders Media, my research has significant social and cultural relevance to the public, and has generated over $3 million of ASR (advertising space rate) in the last three years, being discussed in hundreds of media items in Australia and overseas. These items can be found online and the list below only covers pieces that I have written or co-authored.
Fathi, Romain. Explainer: What’s at stake in France’s election, and could it make Macron’s government even weaker?, The Conversation, 28 June 2024
Fathi, Romain. Australie : un référendum historique pour donner aux Aborigènes une voix au Parlement, The Conversation, 13 October 2023.
Fathi, Romain. The French Legislative Elections: Will Emmanuel Macron Form a Majority Government?, Australian Institute of International Affairs, 8 June 2022.
Fathi, Romain. Emmanuel Macron is reelected but the French are longing for radical change, The Conversation, 25 April 2022.
Fathi, Romain. ‘I don’t think, I know’ – what makes Macron’s comments about Morrison so extraordinary and so worrying, The Conversation, 1 November 2021.
Fathi, Romain. Why the Australia-France submarine deal collapse was predictable, The Conversation, 23 September 2021.
Fathi, Romain. Pourquoi la rupture par l’Australie du « contrat du siècle » était prévisible, The Conversation France, 20 September 2021.
Fathi, Romain, and Rioult, Claire. C'est fini: can the Australia-France relationship be salvaged after scrapping the sub deal? The Conversation, 17 September 2021.
Fathi, Romain, and Rioult, Claire. What is Bastille Day and why is it celebrated? The Conversation, 13 July 2021.
Australian Associated Press. Crowds at Anzac Day dawn services plummet due to ‘waning interest’ of younger Australians, The Guardian, 22 April 2021.
Fathi, Romain. Crowds at dawn services have plummeted in recent years. It’s time to reinvent Anzac Day, The Conversation, 21 April 2021.
Fathi, Romain. “A different kind of Anzac Day”, The Independent Australia, 24 April 2020.
Fathi, Romain. “We must be ready to manage the dead from coronavirus”, The Independent Australia, 25 March 2020.
Fathi, Romain. “Do ‘the French’ care about Anzac?”, The Conversation, 12 April 2019, 17 000 reads.
Fathi, Romain. “‘Look at me! Look at me!’ The Sir John Monash Centre at Villers-Bretonneux: a Frenchman’s reflection on his visit”, Honest History, 12 March 2019.
Fathi, Romain. “100 years since the WW1 Armistice, Remembrance Day remains a powerful reminder of the cost of war”, The Conversation, 9 November 2018, 15 000 reads.
Fathi, Romain. “World politics explainer: The Great War (WWI)”, The Conversation, 3 September 2018, 45 000 reads.
Fathi, Romain. “Is Australia spending too much on the ‘Anzac centenary’? A comparison with France”, Honest History, 14 April 2016.
Fathi, Romain. “Une commémoration très politique”, Les Collections de l’Histoire, no. 66, January 2015. [translation: A political commemoration (on the commemoration of the centenary of the First World War in Australia)]
Fathi, Romain. “L'Australian War Memorial: temple de la religion civile”, Les Collections de l’Histoire, no. 66, January 2015. [translation: The Australian War Memorial: the temple of civil religion]
Fathi, Romain. “Exposer la Grande Guerre au musée-mémorial national australien. Le refus de la modernité au service de la fondation d'origines sacrées”, Arts et Sociétés. La lettre du Séminaire, 2015. [translation: Displaying the Great War at the Australian War Memorial. The refusal of modernity at the service of the foundation of sacred origins]
Fathi, Romain. “Commémorer Gallipoli”, Les Journaux de Guerre 13, (2014). [translation : Commemorating Gallipoli (about the centenary)]
Fathi, Romain. “On the Importance of the Commemoration of the Centenary in Australia”
Fathi, Romain. “A few ways for researching the First World War in Australia”