Médine

Medine Zaouiche (born 24 February 1983 in Le Havre), better known by his stage name Médine, is a French-Algerian rapper He has been a part of the hip-hop collective La Boussole since 1996. Médine is a practicing Muslim, and many of his lyrics deal with the hardships of migrants, oppressed individuals, and Muslims in the Western world. One article he wrote for Time magazine after the 2005 riots was entitled "How Much More French Can I Be".Médine is French for Medina. According to Jordan Barnes, writing for the Daily Mail, his planned concert at Bataclan on the 2018 anniversary of the November 2015 Paris attacks drew sharp criticism from Marine Le Pen, Laurent Wauquiez, with Jean-François Copé & Eric Ciotti even asking President Emmanuel Macron to ban the musician from playing the memorial because they found his rap violently divisive. In the end he rescheduled for the Zenith.