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Darcie Fontaine
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Historian of France and Algeria, editor, translator at Les plumes rouges. Author of “Decolonizing Christianity: Religion and the End of Empire in France and Algeria” and “Modern France and the World.” www.lesplumesrouges.com www.darciefontaine.com
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Martin Griffiths, the UN’s emergency relief chief, told CNN the “great majority” of 400,000 Gazans characterized by UN agencies as at risk of starving “are actually in famine.”

Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza | CNN
Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza | CNN

Hanadi Gamal Saed El Jamara, 38, says sleep is all that can distract her children from the aching hunger gnawing at their bellies.

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Writer friends (and Mom), I'm truly excited to start my freelance editing/writing business. While it's been a lot of fun binge-watching Netflix these past 2 months, I'm ready to work on stories and connect with writers. You can find details below: romanceismydayjob.wordpress.com/editorial-se...

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"'The Future is Feminist' offers a historical example of a powerful moment in which Algerians theorized their own transnational feminism, in response to French colonial stereotypes about Islam and gender, many of which persist today." - Sara Rahnama, via www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/sara-rahnama...

What does a history of Muslim feminism in colonial Algeria have to offer us today?
What does a history of Muslim feminism in colonial Algeria have to offer us today?

Sara Rahnama, author of The Future is Feminist, shares how the history of Muslim feminism in colonial Algeria can offer insights today.

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Very pleased to share this set of articles by Algerian historian Noureddine Amara on the memory of the Algerian War in France in the new issue of Naqd, for which I did the English translation www.cairn.info/revue-naqd.htm

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What a glorious, powerful, beautiful letter of resignation: "So I refuse. I won’t write about poetry amidst the ‘reasonable’ tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to this unreasonable suffering. No more ghoulish euphemisms. No more sanitized hell-words. No more warmongering lies."

Read Anne Boyer’s extraordinary New York Times resignation letter.
Read Anne Boyer’s extraordinary New York Times resignation letter.

It’s been a hell of a 24 hours for writers demonstrating moral courage. Last night at the National Book Awards, over a dozen NBA finalists took to the stage to use their moment in the spotlig…

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Darcie Fontaine
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Historian of France and Algeria, editor, translator at Les plumes rouges. Author of “Decolonizing Christianity: Religion and the End of Empire in France and Algeria” and “Modern France and the World.” www.lesplumesrouges.com www.darciefontaine.com
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