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[28 fév 2010 | No Comment | 20 views]
The pariahs of the French universities

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.

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[21 fév 2010 | No Comment | 42 views]
When racism appears on your screen

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!”

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[2 fév 2010 | No Comment | 58 views]
Immigrants’ voting rights: the debate is still raging

On Tuesday the 12th of January 2010, the Socialist party whose head is Martine Aubry submitted a bill to the National Assembly to enable immigrants to vote during the next local elections.

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[16 jan 2010 | No Comment | 87 views]
What will become of my students?

Sure studying opens doors, but what if there is a big wall at the end of the corridor behind that door?

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[1 jan 2010 | No Comment | 136 views]
A short personal retrospective of the dying decade written on New Year’s Eve -a few minutes before midnight

As everyone in Paris is getting ready for the event; make ups and best suits on, I am sitting up in front my laptop and meditate on the past decade.

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[25 déc 2009 | No Comment | 201 views]
Mélanie Georgiades alias Diam’s

… once put in the forefront and spotlights of all media as representing by excellence the French rap industry and then criticized and boycotted by all after making her re-conversion to Islam public.

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[21 déc 2009 | No Comment | 133 views]
A good reason for being in France at the moment: “Le pari(is)du vivre ensemble»

It seemed to me that all the thoughts and opinions that had once been denied any space of expression had now found an outlet in this very colloquium.

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[19 déc 2009 | One Comment | 20 656 views]
Demonstration, boycott … to support immigrants- the idea gathers many supporters on the internet.

In March 2010; a demonstration day is planned in order to support immigrants- the idea of an economic boycott has already gathered many supporters on the internet.

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[6 déc 2009 | No Comment | 220 views]
When the youngsters of a district start being positive again and take their fate into their own hands.

Were the left-wing’s social messages and lack of sincere measures to remedy social injustices always all planned so that we the deprived and segregated against, in an unachievable dream, keep on being fooled and vote for them?

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[13 nov 2009 | 7 Comments | 445 views]
One’s identity V.s National Identity; but let’s just dream everything is ok so far…..

Exposure of one’s difference in front of the feeling of exclusion and despise for such differences, here is how many individual identities were often built and constructed among the youngsters of immigrant descents in France.