Just like me, she might have been approached by the French authorities, often using academic researchers for their own political aims. Unlike me she might have accepted to play the game and confounded academic research with spying on behalf of the French embassy and consulate.

As a relief I am just telling myself: “Let’s hope, just for once, that the movie will be largely boycotted by the Black Diaspora worldwide!”

In such conditions the part time temporary lecturers may sometimes be tempted in a disarray to have just one objective: accumulating teaching hours; putting good teaching at stake for the sake of money.

There is no doubt today that France seems at last to be more open for a debate on Islamic business and banking; however …

The experiences of Rashida Dati, Rama Yade or again Fadela Amara have become kind of examples of “ethnic minority success stories” in French politics.

“If we want to improve our fight, it is necessary to be involved in all the sectors of the society”


Thierry Sinda, man of letters, fascinating and passionate artist, opens the doors of his universe where nostalgia and fighting spirit are often interwoven.

Retailers and restaurants cash in on rapidly expanding and highly profitable market in halal food and drinks

« I have visited many countries in Europe but what I like about this country …..» I so wished I could just have said the same thing about the country in which I was born.

The Malian actor Sotigui Kouyaté, who has died aged 73, was an important bridge between African and western culture for 40 years. He was best known for his collaborations with the director Peter Brook, in whose work he demonstrated an extraordinary range.

I will never forget those days back in the early eighties when Sydney, one of the rare and only black TV presenters who appeared on the green screen on Saturday afternoons, used to put some funky atmosphere in every household.

Among all the people I know in the nineteenth district of Paris Sadia Diawara is without doubt one of the best models for the younger generation.

I used to think that secularity was the best option at school, but my experience there made me seriously reconsider my opinion. I would never have thought it could work well.

During the last decade, the importance of football in France certainly had some positive economic repercussions on society; however, socially speaking, it appeared as a ramping plague alienating from education the most deprived children from the working class districts of Paris and its region.

PARIS — After France was booted from this year’s World Cup on Tuesday without winning a match — amid scenes of selfishness, indifference and indiscipline — the French news media piled on about the humiliation to the country and the misbehavior of its players. There were calls for a complete restructuring of the French team: its management, its method for choosing players, its training.

In the districts of the north east of the capital, July is also the month when some associations display the different projects they have been working on since the beginning of the year.

There is a serious question about how to measure diversity in a country where every citizen is presumed equal and there are no official statistics based on race, religion or ethnicity. A goal cannot be called a “quota,” which has an odor of the United States and affirmative action. Instead, there is the presumption here that poorer citizens will be more diverse, containing a much larger percentage of Muslims, blacks and second-generation immigrants.

As an Algerian girl who came to France some twenty years ago, I have always enjoyed the traditional dishes of my mother as well as the French gastronomy. As a result, I have become a real “foodie”.

Muslim women living or visiting France are exempt from wearing the full veil two Saudi clerics have declared. The statement comes two weeks after French lawmakers passed a bill where women could be fined for wearing the full veil in public.

“The role of political leaders is, on the contrary, to bring people together, to make peace in a certain way,” he said.

My experience at Georges Rouault High School tells me that between “1939-45 and 2002-10: Nothing has changed, the French history just keep on repeating itself”.

 
 
 
 
 
/DR
This man is silly. His game of chance however sometimes looks like the policy led by the French government:
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The everyday life of the travellers during the trip was regularly illustrated on the website of the association http://roadtreep.over-blog.com/ , thus giving to the unfortunate ones spending their summer holidays in Paris the opportunity to share a bit of the excitement coming out of the Road Tree’P initiative.

The USA welcomed the referendum. So did the European Union.

Have the ethnic minorities in France become so assimilated that they have adopted some form of racism and indifference that used to be in the past proper to part of the French white community?

the solution can no longer come from within the country

“But in the future the grandes écoles will also have to be more like the colleges of Oxford or Cambridge. Autonomous, but part of a federal structure with a university. The grandes écoles are famous for their teaching, but we need to find a way to help them be more productive with research.”
Precisely because most grandes écoles are so professionally oriented, their students conduct very little research, another factor that keeps even the best of them from showing up on international measures of performance

Another May 1968 may be on the verge of being printed in our history books.

Meanwhile, some southern nations, somehow affected too by the credit crunch that first took roots in the United States, seem to take advantage of the situation.

In the case of Ivory Coast, the lack of knowledge of their own historical past also wrongly led many Ivoirians to think that their country, just like France pretends itself to be, was monocultural, monoethnic, and had above all as the only religious identity and faith Christianity.

I was pleased to read the following email this morning. The Asian community being much more organized than any of the different communities we have in France, I do believe that Asians in Britain could serve as showing us the way towards better awareness of the different forms of embedded racism. There is no doubt that their experience tells us how to combat racism.

But what, indeed, if Khadafy was just paying back the consequences of his pro-African policy in a country and region that tends more and more to despise and reject its common heritance and legacy with Black Africa?

I can’t say more things here,
‘cause too many things lingering in my mind,
I won’t utter more things here,
‘cause too many strings binding my mouth!!!

/ DR
 
Several years ago, when I was doing some research on bin Laden, I learned he was suffering from progressive kidney failure. Since he was obviously being selected by the American propaganda machine to be a symbol similar to that of a Tojo or Hitler during WWII, I wanted to know [...]

I am convinced that voting for Marine le Pen will break the taboo and put the masters of rhetoric in front what they have all worked for over the years.

A growing international phenomenon
Mere stupidity!

Dedicated to all the Blacks who still do not know on which foot to stand regarding the Libyan affair …

Abbas Nokhasteh is a British citizen whose interest focuses on promoting and creating bridges between different practitioners, activists and artists. Through his organisation Openvizor.com, Abbas also connects together different organisations and associations around the world.
Earlier this week, in London, he took the time to meet and interview Dr Moustafa Traoré – a French academic and activist who has just released a book on the integration of the Muslim culture in Britain.

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What a drawing so sad it was for the youth of my generation to see the big brothers we once respected so much submit themselves to their weakness, and become physically weak and toothless.

As a specialist in British cultural studies, I was contacted this week by some French media who wanted me to describe and comment on the spreading revolts over the UK

the neighbourhood has undergone considerable refurbishment plans, yet, it seems that it has been all done at the stake of our souvenirs and memories.

For the past years, and for the past months especially, politicians have been on the backs of veiled French Muslim women, passing laws preventing them from freely wearing garments that many of them consider a protection from the male gaze. Yet,

The question is not whether or not there is a need for Black studies in 2012 France, but how to make it (academically) relevant to students who wish to study it.

the topic of integration as a modern social phenomenon has never been methodically covered as in a university thesis like in “L`integration de La culture musulmane en Grande Bretagne “by Dr Mustafa Traore.

In the middle of the crowd and buzz there I saw this young girl probably 8 years old, riding a scooter at the speed of light, slicing through the air

It is time for their citizens to wake up and to demand transparency, respect and freedoms

Too many “Merry Christmas!” and too many “Happy New Year!” in perspective even for those well aware that in these days of economic crisis their future is more than ever counted and already condemned.

Election time is coming; ‘who am I gonna vote for?’ says Wyclef Jean in his song ‘If I was president’. Here is below a possible answer: Cantona’s ‘presidential bid’ a social housing rallying call

For sure, the 21st century will be that of those who lived in that part of the world we called the third world, decades ago.

After the congregants of an Orthodox synagogue could no longer afford their rent, they found help in the local mosque.

just like many others before them had sold themselves for the sake of money and notoriety that would finally ruin their art, claim and originality; most activists I then regarded as brothers and sisters, progressively became eager for fame.

Most people consider getting college admission the toughest step when planning to study abroad, but as far as I am concerned, the most difficult and important part is to understand the foreign cultural norms in order to get involved within the local society

Yet, lots of things have changed since the 19th century. Indeed, living conditions and in particular the workers’ living conditions were not comparable to those of these days.

The process of immigration is sometimes more complex than what one might think…. .
Even if most people think, when looking at me, that I was born from immigrant parents who left China to come straight to France, I am in reality the fruit of a more complex movement of immigration.

As the French presidential elections near, Sylvestre Jaffard charts the declining fortunes of Nicolas Sarkozy and looks at the dangers from the right, with the fascist Marine Le Pen buoyed by the polls, and the opportunities for the left to challenge neoliberalism and austerity

Mohammed Merah’s trail of death will only serve to make such prejudices more publicly acceptable. Even the liberal left in …

At number 07 rue Mathis (75019 Paris) on Thursday 19th April, at 07 pm, we will be holding an event that could be the last opportunity for some elected politicians of the district to clarify their position … just before the elections.

… before he was ousted from power, the last president was sending the young soldiers, totally empty handed and with no weapon, to the front, to fight against the secessionist Tuaregs. While the co-opted soldiers, at the top rank in the Malian military force were drinking their teas all day long, many soldiers from poor families with no connection or relation in the administrations were getting killed.

As a student from University located in Paris, I’m very often facing the bad temper/behaviour of people in the French underground for example. No one ever talks to anyone. No, it’s not a myth, people in big cities aren’t very nice! On the contrary, internet allows us to meet people that we would never meet otherwise

Little known outside France, Hollande would also have his diplomatic skills put to the test fast if he wins, with a Chicago NATO summit looming in late May and a Group of 20 summit in Mexico in late June.

If Nicolas Sarkozy is the hyperactive hare in the Aesop legend, France’s incoming president, François Hollande, is the proverbial tortoise. History has shown that slow and steady wins the race.

In his blog, “Bridges Over Bamako”, Bruce Whitehouse, an anthropologist at the US-based Lehigh University, noted that, “It’s certainly true that the Tuareg have a sympathetic following among the French and that rebel spokesmen have frequently appeared in the French media.”

Never had I seen before any people so brain washed to the point of asking their well-known enemies to bomb them with Uranium as it happened in Libya and as it is now about to happen in Syria.

rather than boycotting the elections or selling oneself to any traditional political party, Almamy Kanouté, a young activist from the city of Fresnes in the suburbs of Paris, has made a different choice.

Nevertheless, French technology experts insist that the system was profoundly innovative and influential to the way the Internet was to develop through the 1990s.

Unlike most black French people, who spend most of their time listening to music, dancing, getting smartly dressed, watching video clips or reading fashion magazines and bling, bling; the black people gathered at the Read meeting were all interested in finding out the secrets hidden in all books.

Watch the video: There is no doubt today that in front of the economic decline and bankruptcy ravaging the West, re-colonization of southern and emerging countries is seen by many ex-colonial powers as the solution by excellence.

The history, culture or heritage of the «African French» does not fit in the values of the French Republique

A French town hall has tried to justify sacking four Muslim holiday-camp workers for not eating in the daytime because of Ramadan, then reversing its policy in the face of a national scandal.

A wide-ranging US State Department report has criticised France and Belgium for passing controversial laws that prevent women from wearing full Islamic veils.

Rather than carrying out an all out Blitzkrieg, the US-NATO-Israel military alliance has chosen to intervene under the diabolical R2P frame of “humanitarian warfare”. Modelled on Libya, the following broad stages are envisaged

Though his reputation among blacks and Arabs in France is showing ever-so-slight signs of wear and tear, US President Barack Obama remains a powerful symbol for French citizens of colour. France24.com takes a closer look.

It is difficult to see in these different treatments of the French media where the slogans and principles of Liberté, égalité, fraternité are applied.

Months after it was announced Qatar was financing a fund to economically reinvigorate France’s disadvantaged suburbs, the French government has said it also plans to pour cash into the project, which has already sparked much controversy.

Fifty-one years to the day, French President François Hollande has recognised the October 17, 1961 massacre of Algerian protesters in Paris. Historian Jean-Luc Einaudi talks to FRANCE 24 about one of the darkest chapters of French colonial history.

Most African French even seem to forget and forgive the crimes and acts of injustice committed on the name of the white man’s supremacy and democracy, under the pretense that this time, their leader is black.

As a convert Muslim woman and a researcher, I became increasingly interested in the concept of gender identity because my conversion to Islam had me entered a new religious system, but also new cultural dimensions: Muslim cultures.

A Malian living in France speaking about the situation in his Father’s land: France, the pyromaniac fireman, as everything proves it, makes me feel ashamed of the identity card that I more than often carry in my inside pockets.

Now, marriage is no longer the union of a couple, but of pairs too. Yes, semantically it makes a difference, at least in the French language. A couple is a combination of two different elements, (often masculine and feminine) and a pair a combination of two similar elements (pair of scissors, pair of trousers, and so on.)

Marrying a Black man or an Asian lady doesn’t make you tolerant or respectful of other cultures or religions

It is a way for me to convey a more tolerant, positive and intelligent image of Islam than the one seen on TV. Through this, I hope that when a media design Islam as the cause of the stupidity of some people, my employees will respond. Deep inside, I hope that they will protest that what the media are spreading about Islam is a wrong.

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… a sensation of travelling without moving. No cars along the Seine River, but just sunshades, palm trees and sand.

…difficult for the French Muslim community to believe that what was decided 5 years ago was not aimed at containing the expansion and expression of Muslims’ values and culture in the hexagon.