Muslims in France: "The Future Is Open"

The heated debate in France about national and individual identity, fanned by political rhetoric, is far from over. Muslims, as the central topic of this debate, are more often talked about than heard. In Muslims in France: "The Future Is Open," Chuck Sudetic helps rectify the imbalance by telling the stories of some of France's most controversial citizens. The people he interviewed describe  the highs, lows, and everyday realities of life for Muslims in Paris and Marseille.At Home in Europe, an Open Society Foundations project, examines the position of minorities and marginalized groups in a changing Europe. Currently the project is studying Muslim inclusion in 11 cities across Europe, including two French cities, Paris and Marseille. In Marseille, where people of Muslim background account for about 20 percent of the city's 4.7 million people, a mixed picture emerges about the local and national identities of Muslims. There are also success stories like Med'in Marseille, a website set up in 2007 which has been instrumental in tackling stereotypes and placing immigrant populations at the heart of local citizenship

The philanthropy of George Soros: Building open societies

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On Photographic Violence

This paper explores the significance of photographic violence in relation to a single defaced image found during the Bosnian War. The single example of pictorial violence opens a set of questions interrogating the nature of human aggression: What is the status of violence carried out in effigy? Can this particular example of defacement open understanding into the other forms of violence that took place during the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia? How does the image come to be marked by affect but also serve as the medium of its transmission? And finally, why does photography lend itself so easily to the expression of aggression? The wager of this paper is that thinking through such instances of photographic violence can shed new light on the nature of human violence writ large