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Article: Hospitality, integration, and daily life: le the au harem d'Archi Ahmed and Le gone du Chaaba.
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- West Virginia University Philological Papers
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- September 22, 2003
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In Hospitalite francaise (1984), Tahar Ben Jelloun lists a number of crimes committed against Arab people in France between May 1982 and October 1983. (1) A total of forty-five victims, teenagers and young adults, were violently attacked for various reasons by police, residents, and unidentified aggressors. According to Ben Jelloun, "[L]e racisme en France est de l'ordre de convictions aveugles, de l'ordre de l'evidence, d'intuitions et de donnees que ni la science ni la politique ne justifient serieusement" (36). In other terms, racism against Arabs does not have its own theory and seems to draw, according to Ben Jelloun, from old, anti-Semitic ideas. But racism does not ...
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