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Activists accuse event organisers of hosting Zionism supporters and failing to invite pro-Palestine Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux

The attack on Salman Rushdie has exposed the deepening fault lines the literary establishment of France and the French free-speech debate.

On resurgent anti-Semitism, and its intellectual roots

The politicisation of the young has been widely discussed, but it is the politicisation of the old that has been most effective.

The middle class, if it did not shrink certainly suffered losses in income, and the lower income brackets plunged to the bottom of the social pyramid, confronting the spectre of poverty and social marginalisation.

Addressing both houses of the French parliament on June 22, 2009—the first such speech by the head of state in one hundred and fifty years—President Nicolas Sarkozy stated that the burqa—an Islamic garment that conceals the face with the exception of

This article, by Anne Morelli, is here translated for the first time complete. It is based on her monograph, Principes élémentaires de propagande de guerre (utilisables en cas de guerre froide, chaude ou tiède) — The Basic Principles of War...

Roman Polanski won an Oscar in 2003—25 years after he fled the U.S. to avoid a prison sentence for a guilty plea for unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.

A cultural event based on a Bharatanatyam performance on ‘Ram-Stuti’ and prize distribution ceremony was organised on the concluding day