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The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs

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A provocative rethinking of France’s long relationship with the Arab world

To fully consider both the social and political pressures wracking latest France―and, indeed, all of Europe―in addition to major events from the Arab Spring in the Middle East to the tensions in Mali, Andrew Hussey believes that we need to look beyond the confines of domestic horizons. Up to unemployment, economic stagnation, and social deprivation exacerbate the ongoing turmoil in the banlieues, the root of the problem lies somewhere else: in the continuing fallout from Europe’s colonial era.
Combining an enchanting 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 current situation. All through 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 may not be between Islam and the West but between two dramatically different experiences of the world―the colonizers and the colonized.

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