Cicilie among the Parisians

Apart from a visit to the cemetery with about 50% of the French population on All Saints’ Day (La fête de la Toussaint) and a visit to the Institut du monde arabe for the exhibition L’âge d’or des sciences arabes, fieldwork the last week has mostly consi… more »

Between “civil war” and “end of republicanism” - and the state of emergency paragraph from the war in Algeria... “Civil war” is of course Le Pen polemic. But besides that, Front National has been taking it very easy lately; perhaps they don’t really h… more »

-or maybe I should say Salaam Aleikum in appreciation of Ramadan, which began a few days ago. Finally it seems like I’m getting the online diary from my east Paris fieldwork up and going. For the next six weeks I’m settled in an Art Déco building in t… more »