Join the Albertine Book Club for a lively Zoom conversation on Our Riches by Kaouther Adimi, translated from the French by Chris Andrews (New Directions). The discussion will be moderated by Albertine Bookseller Adam Hocker. Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses…
To RSVP, please click here. Joshua Cole talks about his new book, Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria (Cornell UP, 2019), that explores an episode of anti-Jewish violence in the Algerian city of Constantine on August 3-5, 1934. The Constantine riots were an important event in Algerian, French, and Jewish history but their origins have been the subject…
To RSVP, please click here. Screening and discussion with filmmaker Malek Bensmaïl, in conversation with Madeleine Dobie and Etienne Balibar. With exceptional archival materials and many interviews (Algeria, France, Italy, United-States) Malek Bensmaïl’s documentary about Gillo Pontecorvo’s legendary 1965 film, The Battle of Algiers, will give us, sixty years after, a strong look back at this film halfway between history and legend.…