Policing North Africans in Marseille and Algiers, 1918-1954
Criminalizing the Casbahs explores how French police officers in Marseille and Algiers associated the spaces they saw as North African-the "Casbahs"-with a particular form of criminality, one they insisted was inherently North African. Through local but connected histories of policing in these two cities, Danielle Beaujon traces how police ......
Policing North Africans in Marseille and Algiers, 1918-1954
Criminalizing the Casbahs explores how French police officers in Marseille and Algiers associated the spaces they saw as North African-the "Casbahs"-with a particular form of criminality, one they insisted was inherently North African. Through local but connected histories of policing in these two cities, Danielle Beaujon traces how police ......
A significant and prolific francophone writer and filmmaker, Assia Djebar is celebrated for her experimental, multilingual prose and her nuanced, imaginative representations of Algeria. From her first novel, La soif (The Mischief), to her final book, Nulle part dans la maison de mon pere ("No Place in My Father's House"), she offers a wealth of ......
Augustine of Hippo is one of the most well-loved and most thoughtprovoking writers of the early church. He is also one of the most quotable. In this slim volume, some of the saint's memorable, pithy, controversial, and oYen feisty sayings are gathered in topics that range from war to peace; grief to happiness; vice to virtue; and from heaven to ......
An account of the rise of Algerian Islamism from its early days during the 132 years of French colonial rule, its short moment of glory when it seemed about to take power in the late-1980s, and its subsequent crash.
Before widescale emigration in the early 1960s, North Africa's Jewish communities were among the largest in the world. Without Jewish emigrants from North Africa, Israel's dynamic growth would simply not have occured. North African Jews, also called Maghribi, strengthed the new Israeli state through their settlements, often becoming the victims ......
Before widescale emigration in the early 1960s, North Africa's Jewish communities were among the largest in the world. This title presents the picture of three Third World Jewish communities, tracing their exposure to modernization and their relations with the Muslims and the European settlers.
In this full-length study of Helene Cixous, the first to be published in English, Verena Andermatt Conley adopts a chronological and expository approach, bravely taking on the daunting task of presenting to non-French-speaking readers an author who specializes in word-play. "Whether you have or have not attempted to read Cixous, I highly recommend ......
