The New Book Series at the Hagop Kevorkian Center features new publications in the interdisciplinary field of Middle East Studies. This gripping insider’s account chronicles how and why the author, as a young French-educated woman in 1950s Algiers, joined the armed wing of Algeria’s national liberation movement to combat her country’s French occupiers. When the movement’s leaders, driven underground by…
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Lecture by Madeleine Dobie To RSVP, please click here. Madeleine Dobie is Professor in the Department of French and teaches as well in the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Her books include Relire Mayotte Capécia. Une Femme des Antilles dans l’espace colonial français, 1916-1955 (2012). Her current book project, After Violence, is about literature and cinema…
Viggo Mortenson gives a dramatic reading of Albert Camus’ 1946 speech. RSVP required. Sign up here. From Maison Française: Albert Camus originally delivered this lecture on “La Crise de l’homme” on March 28, 1946, to a very full house at Columbia’s McMillan Theatre, on his first and only trip to the United States. 70 years later, to celebrate Camus’s visit…