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Imagining the Diasporic Link: The Franco-Algerian Media Dialogues on the 2005 ‘Emeutes’ in France

By Irina Mihalache — March 26th, 2008
Both France and Algeria have been struggling with the memory of colonialism, adopting various strategies of collective remembering.


Imagining the Diasporic Link: The Franco-Algerian Media Dialogues on the 2005 ‘Emeutes’ in France

By Irina Mihalache — March 22nd, 2008
In October and November 2005, the emeutes (riots) in the Parisian banlieues re-stated the existing social conflicts between second and third immigrants from former North African French colonies and the French state. These instances of violence brought to life memories of colonialism and of the …


$7.3 billion gone?

By D. T. Cochrane — January 25th, 2008
A trader with the French bank Société Générale has been implicated in fraud that cost the bank $7.3 billion. Knowledgeable of the various security mechanisms meant to prevent this sort of fraud, Jerome Kerviel was able to hide his transactions from controllers. It …