In this second volume, Naoufel Brahimi El Mili continues his investigation into the secret and winding meanders of the complex links between France and Algeria. A fascinating document.

For nearly fifty years, France and Algeria would maintain a passionate and tumultuous relationship, made up of love and hatred against a backdrop of gas contracts, immigration and badly healed identity wounds. A relationship where all shots will be allowed, but in secret. Naoufel Brahimi El Mili finally lifts the veil on this very dark period of our history.

Speech and action is a story of France after the Second World War, told by a committed protagonist, iconoclastic lawyer and convinced left-wing activist. With tenderness and humour, the author immerses himself in his exemplary itinerary and looks back on cases that still fascinate today, meditating on the meaning of his commitment and on the struggles to be waged...

It is the fantasy of the Islamic “threat”, both internal and external, that Alain Gresh dismantles in this book, based on a secular and rational vision of Muslims in their historical and geographical diversity. He returns to the debates that shook France. Is Islam compatible with democracy? Is the headscarf a weapon against secularism?...

Is Allah Arab? Is it permissible to freely choose one's religion or simply to leave it? Is green the color of Islam? Is Sufism a sect? Can the Quran be translated? Can a woman become an imam? The minaret, the hijab , the prayer rug, the crescent... are they intangible elements of the Muslim rite?...

What is the responsibility of our societies in the making of these new jihadists? How are they formed? How did we play into the game of the Islamic State and relay its propaganda to allow it to recruit within our neighborhoods ever more candidates ready to fight in the name of a fantasized Islam? Nicolas Hénin delivers here a plea against the West...

Islam, the Republic and the World, by Alain Gresh This book looks back on the debates that shook France. Is Islam compatible with democracy? Is the headscarf a weapon against secularism? Can Muslims integrate into European societies? Can French citizens, Muslims and non-Muslims, believers and...