num_pages: 464
description: A provocative rethinking of France's long relationship with the Arab worldTo fully understand both the social and political pressures wracking contemporary Franceand indeed all of Europeas well as major events from the Arab Spring in the Middle East to the tensions in Mali Andrew Hussey believes that we have to look beyond the confines of domestic horizons. As much as unemployment economic stagnation and social deprivation exacerbate the ongoing turmoil in the banlieues  the root of the problem lies in the continuing fallout from Europe's colonial era.Combining a fascinating and compulsively readable mix of history literature and politics with his years of personal experience visiting the banlieues and countries across the Arab world especially Algeria Hussey attempts to make sense of the present situation. In the course of teasing out the myriad interconnections between past and present in Algeria Morocco Tunisia Beirut and Western Europe The French Intifada shows that the defining conflict of the twenty-first century will not be between Islam and the West but between two dramatically different experiences of the worldthe colonizers and the colonized.
language: English
title: The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux