Larbi

Un monastère perché dans les montagnes du Maghreb, dans les années 1990. Huit moines chrétiens français vivent en harmonie avec leurs frères musulmans. Quand une équipe de travailleurs étrangers est massacrée par un groupe islamiste, la terreur s'installe dans la région. L'armée propose une protection aux moines, mais ceux-ci refusent. Doivent-ils partir ? Malgré les menaces grandissantes qui les entourent, la décision des moines de rester coûte que coûte, se concrétise jour après jour…

From Academy Award-winning writer Diablo Cody (Juno) comes an “urgent, wildly entertaining, and wickedly funny” (The Boston Globe) original story of suburban subversion inspired by Alanis Morissette’s Grammy-Award winning album.
Mary Jane Healy is a high-achieving homemaker who will do anything for her family, including their adopted African-American daughter Frankie, who is struggling to find her place in their lily-white community. But when the Healys’ lives begin to unravel, Mary Jane’s drive to keep her family together threatens to break them apart.

Delving into the deepest recesses of raï, this compilation serves as a tribute to its roaring years, but also as a rejuvenation of the genre in its sulphurous, subterranean version. It seemed like a good idea to dig into nearly untraceable cassettes, thus confirming it’s in the oldest of Oranese pots that the very best of raï is to be found. Just 50 years ago, no one would have believed even a bit in a genre seemingly bound to forever turn round and round in its native Oran, laying low in one of its many coastal road clubs.

The Italian-German mezzo-soprano Sofia Pavone is distinguished by her unmistakable timbre, a wide vocal range and an expressive, musically well-thought-out design.

This book looks with hindsight at the Arab Spring and sheds light on the debates it triggered within North African societies and the alarming developments in women's rights.