Pulling Out of the Nuclear Deal Won’t Send Iran Rushing to Build a Bomb
As long as Washington is willing to play hardball.
April 5, 2018
Albert Memmi’s Very Jewish Rejection of Postcolonial Orthodoxies
The diary of a Tunisian Jew.
Reviewing the Tunisian-French-Jewish writer Albert Memmi’s most recent book (not yet translated into English), Daniel Gordon surveys the career of a man he describes as a “novelist who wrote like a sociologist [who] became a sociologist who wrote like a novelist.” Memmi, born and raised in Tunisia, spent World War II in a concentration camp. In 1957, he wrote The Colonizer and the Colonized, a foundational text of postcolonial theory, but quickly broke from his friends Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus in presciently expressing his concerns about the ability of former colonies to govern themselves, decrying Arab anti-Semitism, defending Israel, and rejecting the bloodthirsty ideology of Frantz Fanon. Gordon writes:
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In Hamas’s Gaza Demonstrations, the Deaths of Palestinians Are a Feature, Not a Bug
This was not a “protest for a better future.”
Saudi Arabia Should Normalize Relations with Israel—and Not Only for Strategic Reasons
Doing so would help ensure a normal Saudi Arabia.
Albert Memmi’s Very Jewish Rejection of Postcolonial Orthodoxies
The diary of a Tunisian Jew.
The Haggadah’s Baffling Invitation
“All who are hungry, come and eat . . . ”