Albert Memmi

With his "Portrait of the Colonised" Tunisian-French sociologist and writer Albert Memmi laid forth a seminal work of decolonialism in the 1950s. This work was followed recently by "Portrait of the Decolonised", in which he draws a very sobering balance.

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English bibliography

The colonizer and the colonized. Introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre; afterword by Susan Gilson Miller; [translated by Howard Greenfeld]. Expanded ed. Boston: Beacon Press, c1991. ISBN 0807003018

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Decolonization and the decolonized. Translated by Robert Bononno. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2006. ISBN 0816647348

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Dependence : a sketch for a portrait of the dependent. Translated by Philip A. Facey. Boston: Beacon Press, c1984. ISBN 0807043001

Dominated man; notes towards a portrait. New York: Orion Press [1968].
Jews and Arabs. Translated from the French by Eleanor Levieux. Chicago: J. P. O’Hara, c1975. ISBN 0879553278 ISBN 0879553286

The liberation of the Jew. Translated from the French by Judy Hyun. New York: Orion Press [1966].

The pillar of salt. Translated by Edouard Roditi. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992. ISBN 0807083275
The pillar of salt. Chicago: J. P. O’Hara, [1975] c1955. ISBN 0879559071

Portrait of a Jew. Translated from the French by Elisabeth Abbott. New York: Orion Press [1962]

Racism. Translated and with an introd. by Steve Martinot. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2000. ISBN 0816631646

The scorpion, or, The imaginary confession. Translated from the French by Eleanor Levieux. New York: Grossman, 1971. 0670622710

Strangers. Translated from the French by Brian Rhys. New York: Orion Press [1960]

Sonic Acts XII - The Cinematic Experience

Long before celluloid was introduced at the end of the nineteenth century, other media were used to create cinematic experiences: magic lanterns, colour organs, zoëtropes, phenakistoscopes and many other, often optical machines. But even after the introduction of celluloid and the rise of cinema as a spatial concept, there were many attempts to redefine the concept of cinema. This was driven by avant-garde filmmakers during the interbellum, such as Walter Ruttmann and Oskar Fischinger; Jordan Belson and Henry (Ken) Jacobs in the 50s with their Vortex concerts and Le Corbusier’s Philips Pavilion at the World Expo in 1958 by Xenakis and Varèse; and in the 60s by experiments such as computer and film pioneer Stan Vanderbeek’s Movie Drome project. In the 80s and 90s an increasing number of artists, filmmakers, musicians and composers created all kinds of immersive environments in which they experimented with new forms of cinema.

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The Koran

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NAEEM MOHAIEMEN "Fear of a Muslim Planet:The Islamic roots of hip-hop"

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"Immigrants should understand from Black people what Islam means in America, because African-Americans have been doing it for 400 years."-- Sohail Daulatzai

[I] work in Dhaka/New York as a visual artist, using video, photography, archive and text. Areas of investigation include national security panic, failed revolutionary movements, and the slippage between utopia and dystopia. I also intervened as part of Visible Collective, doing a multiyear investigation of hysterical conditions.
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Video Threats and Official Headscarves in Austria: Islam Createsonly Moderate Concern

Was it a real threat from the Al Qaeda network or was it just emptyboasting? Ever since the emergence of a video with threats againstthe government, Austria has had to recognise that it knows littleabout the Muslims who live in the country. By Paul Jandlhttp://qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-712/i.html