On Wednesday 7th of January, Paris made headlines worldwide when two armed men burst into the headquarters of the anarchist satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo to kill the cartoonists they deemed...
Despite divergences of opinion amongst Muslim religious scholars as to whether covering the face of a woman in Islam is compulsory or not, practice testifies that many Muslim women customarily do....
I probably wouldn’t have admitted this 11 years ago as an undergraduate anti-war activist: The French government made the right call in sending troops to Northern Mali. But I wouldn’t have...
Two days ago on May 6th, Francois Hollande won the French Presidential election for the Socialist Party. Once a Presidential hopeful for the very same party, Dominique Strauss Kahn watched the...
New Yorkers who had been following the Dominique Strauss-Kahn rape case got a nasty shock this Saturday. In my case, it was broken to me gently. While I was picking up a soda in my local bodega, a...
For the sake of the flow of this article, whenever I refer to “burqa” or “full veil” I am referring to both the burqa and niqab, but not the abaya, chador, or hijab. The minute that anyone...
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At the end of “28 Weeks Later”, the screaming British zombies surged through the channel tunnel to upset the Parisians with lack of fashion sense, inadequate language skills (RARGGGHHH) and...
Sometimes movie gets it so right you want grab the screen by its imaginary collars and drag it passionately toward you. For a fleeting, transitory moment, the film is yours and yours alone; it’s...
Ireland’s final hopes to participate in the 2010 FIFA World Cup were dashed when Gallas scored a goal in extra time with an assist from Thierry Henry. It is widely acknowledged that the Irish team...