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 in the Middle East 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.
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