Claire-Selma Aïtout

Portrait of Claire-Selma

Claire-Selma Aïtout creates and writes podcasts and poetry. Their work focuses primarily on science communication, mental health and the immigration.

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La langue de ton père n'est plus sa langue

La langue de ton père n’est plus sa langue

Claire-Selma Aïtout never learned to speak Kabyle, their father’s language. While all languages can be languages of love, theirs is built instead through the fragments of a mythology made of absences and tales in which the living and the dead coexist.

la saga des maths

La saga des maths, now a book (out November 5, 2026)

Behind every mathematical concept there is a story to tell: the history of mathematics told through the people who made it. If mathematics is often seen as cold or inaccessible, La saga des maths puts it back into its historical context.