To speak today of the French Colonial Empire is, of course, to speak of something belonging to the past. Juridically speaking, the Empire replaced it by the vague and never clearly defined concept ...

Strategically, "positive" accounts of the colonial past appeal to former settlers from French North Africa, known as pieds-noirs, and to nationalist defenders of the French military. This made ...

In his new biography of the revolutionary psychiatrists life, Adam Shatz asks what Fanon would have made of the 7 October ...

The French colonial efforts were clearly different in each country in North Africa that they inhabited. In particular, the attempt to completely take over Algeria as a part of France was in ...

It is an Islamophobic supremacy that uniquely targets Muslims in France, most of whom are immigrants from former French colonies. The second step is to redefine its understanding of religious ...

“French literature has rarely been interested in the beginnings of colonization,” said Pierre Assouline, a juror of the Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize. “It was about ...

Many places in Michigan, including cities and streets, have French-origin names, a remnant of the state's past. Here's what ...