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The French intifada : the long war between France and its Arabs

Hussey, Andrew, author

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\"A provocative rethinking of France's long relationship with the Arab world. To fully understand both the social and political pressures wracking contemporary France--and, indeed, all of Europe--as well as major events from the Arab Spring to the tensions in Mali, Andrew Hussey believes that we have to look beyond the confines of domestic horizons. As much as unemployment, economic stagnation, and social deprivation exacerbate the ongoing turmoil in the banlieues, the root of the problem lies elsewhere: in the continuing fallout from Europe's colonial era. Combining a fascinating and compulsively readable mix of history, literature, and politics with his years of personal experience visiting the banlieues and countries across the Arab world, especially Algeria, Hussey attempts to make sense of the present situation. In the course of teasing out the myriad interconnections between past and present in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Beirut, and Western Europe, The French Intifada shows that the defining conflict of the twenty-first century will not be between Islam and the West but between two dramatically different experiences of the world--the colonizers and the colonized\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Subject: France Relations Arab countries. / France Relations Algeria. / Algeria Relations France. / France Colonies Africa History. / Africa, North Colonization. / Arab countries Colonization. / Algeria Colonization. / Africa, North Relations France. / France Relations Africa, North. / Arab countries Relations France.
• ISBN: 9780865478268, 0865478260

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DT197.5.F8 H87 2015	1	BOOK	GENERAL