Posts Tagged ‘Algeria’

A Savage War of Peace by Alistair Horne

The best book about the 9/11 attacks and war in Iraq, though it is about France in 1950s Algeria

Sahrawi refugees photographed by Andrew McConnell

Incredible, luminous figures stand out against landscapes of perpetual night

Reading about Sarkozy and French nativists

French cultural insecurity eviscerates the universalism of the Rights of Man


The Battle of Algiers

My vote for the greatest political film of all time