The case of Ali Lmrabet, this virtuoso of mystification, recalls that very categorical of Claas Relotius, who admitted to having invented quotes and scenes which he in fact never attended. Painting “the political police” grappling with the private life of a few individuals has become the catch-all argument of Ali Lmrabet, who takes advantage of … Read more
Ali Shariati. We often tend to restrict the main actors of anti-colonialism in France to personalities such as Frantz Fanon, Jean Paul Sartre or Aimé Césaire. However, they were not the only ones to bring this movement to life. Other French-speaking intellectuals adopted this thought by including in it a spiritual paradigm which echoed in … Read more
Le Pakistan célèbre cette année le soixante-quinzième anniversaire de sa création, l’aboutissement de la partition douloureuse et chaotique de l’Empire des Indes en deux nations distinctes, une Inde à majorité hindoue et un Pakistan musulman. Imaginé par des intellectuels, l’idée d’un État pour les musulmans du sous-continent prit corps sous l’impulsion d’un leader d’exception nommé … Read more
Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali, the greatest boxer of all time, would be 80 today if Parkinson hadn’t taken him away in 2016. He won gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics, faced Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan in 1971 and 1974 in two of the legendary matches, he fought in Kinshasa in … Read more
Ali Shariati. We often tend to restrict the main actors of anti-colonialism in France to personalities such as Frantz Fanon, Jean Paul Sartre or Aimé Césaire. However, they were not the only ones to bring this movement to life. Other French-speaking intellectuals adopted this thought by including in it a spiritual paradigm which echoed in … Read more