At 3 a.m. on July 26, 2023, the presidential guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum in Niamey, the capital of Niger. Troops, led by Brigadier…

One of the underlying principles of the UN Charter is the protection of the sovereign rights of states. Yet since 1945, the…

In response to the police murder of a 17-year-old youth, Nahel Merzouk, in the banlieue [variously translated as working-class suburb, or even “inner city”]…

On Saturday, July 1, 2023, a large crowd gathered inside and around the Ibn Badis Mosque in Nanterre, France, where a 17-year-old…

What is it about France these days? La republique seems to be ever on the brink of exploding over one or another…

When French director Mathieu Kassovitz created his magnum opus, La Haine  (Hatred), in 1995, he did so “because kids die.” The film, heralded as a…

On June 27, Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old French boy of North African descent was murdered by a white police officer in a…

This Tuesday, Nahel, a seventeen-year-old of Franco-Algerian origin, was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in the…

Still out of breath after the marche blanche in Nanterre — a solemn procession in tribute to Nahel, the seventeen-year-old shot dead by French…

Since the video went viral of the brutal killing by a police officer of Nahel, a 17-year-old shot dead at point-blank range,…