The country struggles with religion and integration one week after the Charlie Hebdo murders. (Reuters/Eric Gaillard) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive ...

“Who in this room is French?” Nourdine Nabili asks a group of 25 eighth-graders in Bondy, one of the concrete working-class suburbs just outside Paris. It is April 2011 and Nabili, the 44-year-old ...

“The celebration of multiculturalism and the critique of Eurocentrism are for us inseparable concepts,” write Ella Shohat, a professor of performing arts at the Graduate School and University Center ...

“Intellectual life is undermined by the alliance of two messianisms, Islamism and a left whose main activity is to track down ill-thinkers. An intellectual life ...

PARIS (RNS) As France emerges from its worst terrorist attack in decades, a biting novel that imagines the country governed by Islamic law is part of a swirling debate about its basic values. Will the ...

PARIS—Prominent French politicians and intellectuals say that the country faces a growing threat: U.S.-style activist movements that are foisting American multiculturalism and gender politics onto ...

The country struggles with religion and integration one week after the Charlie Hebdo murders. (Reuters/Eric Gaillard) The first excursion that my husband and I made after we arrived in Paris on a cold ...