I recently read a chapter from Arthur Asseraf’s Electric News in Colonial Algeria (2019). The chapter, entitled “Arab Telephone,” covers the intimate relationship between colonization, the expansion of the telegraph in Algeria, and resistance. Asseraf analyzes the growth of a global pan-Islamist movement through these colonial technologies. As the telegraph spread with colonial expansion, so… Continue reading Going South
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Points of Entry, Points of Exit
In the summer of 2020, The Funambulist Podcast recorded a series on France’s “quartiers populaires.” These episodes were often recorded in the neighborhoods being discussed, where the host, Léopold Lambert, interviewed current and former residents. Les Potagers, a housing project in Nanterre, is the subject of two such episodes. Built in the early 60’s, Les… Continue reading Points of Entry, Points of Exit
