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par De Notre Envoyé Spécial À Cannes : Tewfik Hakem La Palme dOr et les autres prix seront décernés ce soir par le jury présidé par le cinéaste américain Spike Lee. En attendant, retour sur les évènements marquants de cette très particulière édition du Festival de Cannes. Dune main ranger ses affaires en vitesse pour quitter lhôtel à lheure indiquée par le règlement de létablissement, de lautre pianoter un dernier article sous forme de bilan qui résumerait cette très étr...

| |Mis à jour le 14/06/2021 à 10h02 Au lendemain du drame, à Mérignac, un rassemblement de plus de 400 personnes devant la maison des Boutaa, que lassassin a en partie incendiée. En médaillon : le 15 mars 2021, sur le parking du supermarché où Chahinez vient dêtre agressée par son mari, qui a pourtant obligation de ne pas lapprocher. Sipa ×Close Il lui avait promis l’amour. Le 4 mai, Mounir Boutaa immolait sa femme en pleine rue, après lui avoir tiré dans les jambes. Cinq se...

If you’ve read anything about Imbolo Mbue, you probably already know that she was inspired to start writing after plucking Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon from an Oprah’s Book Club picks shelf at a public library in Virginia. (She thought it would be a Biblical story.) As a kid in Cameroon, she fell in love with books reading Shakespeare, Dickens, and Achebe, and public libraries were a haven when she moved to America at 17. She first arrived in Chicago (“too cold, too windy”), then ...

Imbolo Mbue on Andre Agassi,‘The Friend,’ and the Book Shed Like to See As a Netflix Series ELLE 4 days ago Riza Cruz © Portrait by Kiriko Sano / Illustration by Yousra Attia The PEN/Faulkner Award winning author of How Beautiful We Were on Andre Agassi,The Friend, and the Book Shed Like to See As a Netflix Series. Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads. Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to console you, ...

New & Noteworthy, From Jazz-Age Cairo to a Catholic Memoir Published March 16, 2021Updated March 21, 2021 Recent titles of interest: ZABOR, or The Psalms, by Kamel Daoud. Translated by Emma Ramadan. (Other Press, paper, $17.99.) An ode to storytelling with shades of Scheherazade, this novel by the author of “The Meursault Investigation” features a hero convinced that his journal writing keeps those he loves alive. THE PHONE BOOTH AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, by Laura Imai Messina. Translated b...

The Hirak, a massive popular protest movement for democracy in Algeria which began in February 2019 and continues to challenge military authoritarian rule in the country today, is most potent when it can sustain mass mobilization against the regime across cultural, ethnic, linguistic, ideological, class, and racial lines. 1Elsewhere, I discuss the importance of sustained, cross-cutting mobilization in efforts to end military authoritarian rule. See Stephen J. King, The Arab Winter: Democratic ...