Top Reads 2023 | Essays
Granta magazine's ten most popular essays posts of the year, with writing by Lauren Oyler, Amitava Kumar and Joanna Biggs.
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Granta magazine's ten most popular essays posts of the year, with writing by Lauren Oyler, Amitava Kumar and Joanna Biggs.
Pressure mounts on France to recognise the 1961 Paris massacre of Algerians as a ‘state crime’.
Rim-Sarah Alouane, French legal academic of Algerian heritage “So, you know, it's always, ‘Yeah, it happened. It was bad, but,’” Alouane said. “No, there is no ‘but.’ Nothing positive came out of colonization. Land was stolen, identities were erased, crimes were committed.” As a candidate, French President Emmanuel Macron said he wanted to correct the record, and called French colonialism in Algeria a "crime against humanity.” Once in office, he charged Benjamin Stora, a prominent French historian of Algerian colonial history, with delivering a report recommending ways to ...
Congratulations to Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Mauritania! Now Can #Israel Hasbara not claim say Israeli Couscous? pic.twitter.com/VQmORoekSe — Dr. Abdalhadi Alijlaعبد الهادي (@DrAlijla) December 16, 2020 Le couscous au patrimoine immatériel de l’UNESCO. On explique ou a ces gens que le couscous au poisson de ma grand-mère doit être la 8eme merveille du monde ? — Laoban �������� (@RTamss_) December 16, 2020 Translation: The couscous in the intangible heritage of Unesco. Where do we explain to these people that my grandmother's fish couscous must be the ...