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With his ability to control his own narrative, the one-man show is a symptom of the Americanization of French politics
The Tunisian-born writer died in May at 99. He leaves a rich, important, and complicated legacy of colonial and postcolonial thinking.
How the pro-Islamism and anti-Zionism of today’s left trace their origins to French colonialists who hated Jews and turned Algeria into a reactionary fantasy land
How Western intellectuals turn themselves into the enemies of an entire class of liberal writers from Muslim backgrounds
On his new album, ‘Les Clefs,’ the Pied-Noir singer-songwriter, whose career has spanned five decades, croons gently, nostalgically about Algeria
Francophone Algerian writer Kemal Daoud writes back to ‘The Stranger’—and breathes life into its nameless victim
The philosopher’s influential legacy is reshaped by the part of his life story that is often overlooked
Free Men, a film about Muslim members of the French Resistance in World War II, evokes recent surveillance activity by the New York Police Department
A Tunisia-born Jew and French officer who fought the Berbers in Algeria pioneered the counterinsurgency warfare still used in Iraq and Afghanistan
Albert Camus, who died an atheist at 46, had surprisingly deep ties to Judaism in his life, his political activity, and his philosophical thought
Searching for Jewish cooking in France
Just in case you were wondering
Through Arab media, blogosphere
Joann Sfar on his graphic tale of a clever cat in 1930s Algeria
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