When satire targets marginalized groups, it risks reinforcing harmful stereotypes rather than challenging them.
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The final novel from France’s most famous literary provocateur, set in 2027, features an antihero based on a real-life French politician – who reports to a president modelled on Macron.
Rushdie feared until he dealt with the attempt on his life, he ‘wouldn’t be able to write anything else’. The book is a clearly cathartic story of courage and resilience, but it’s curiously one-eyed.
Visual depiction of Prophet Muhammad is a sensitive issue for many Muslims. Islamic literature shows how Muslims used textual imagery to give a vivid picture of the prophet.
The French satirical magazine republished the controversial caricatures of Prophet Muhammad. An expert says satire has often been a subject of condemnation.
Charlie Hebdo’s often biting and dark humour frequently troubles people in France, and many reactions to the attack in France were not in keeping with the values of the publication.
Primary school children in France will now have to learn and sing La Marseillaise. But for many people, it is racist and xenophobic.
While France and the US both guarantee individual religious freedom, the two nations’ approach to religion in the public sphere and the separation between church and state are profoundly different.
Memorials to the terror attack have become visual and transient – a battleground to contest parts of French identity.
How literary analysis led one scholar to develop a theory of how immigrants become connected to their host society – and therefore unlikely to attack it.
Recent attacks in Paris and Brussels have taught the French some important lessons about how to deal with the threat of terrorism.
Why we should criticise Charlie Hebdo’s latest satirical take on racism.
France was left reeling by the attacks of January 2015 and things only got worse as the year unfolded – so why the political inertia?
Social media were at the heart of the attacks in Paris, serving as tools of communication and also sources of information and emotion.
In the next few weeks we may see a resurgence of rhetoric calling for more resources to fight the War on Terror following the Paris attacks. Islamophobia may take deeper root in Europe as a whole.
It may feel like the battle is being lost but some vital information has been gathered in the decade since the London bombings.
One man is dead and two injured in an attack on a gas factory near Lyon. At least one suspect was known to French intelligence agencies.
The PEN literary gala has been overshadowed by controversy.
Tunisia has come further than any post-Arab Spring nation – so it’s no wonder it drew Islamic State’s ghastly attention.
In the month since the the Charlie Hebdo tragedy, the significance of visual representation has been a topic of much discussion. Political cartoons have the potential to reinforce problematic stereotypes…
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