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...Ever since France's glorious 1998 World Cup title, that country has looked to Zidane, who grew up the son of a poor Algerian immigrant, to personify the possibility of social harmony. That's a tough call for a man all too aware that his own success does nothing to change the circumstances of the disenfranchised immigrant populations of France's urban ghettos whence he came, and where he continues to place his primary allegiance...
...Zidane was banned for two games after stomping on Saudi Arabia's Fuad Amin, whom people close to Zidane said had leveled a racial slur against the player. Zidane was also forced to defend his Algerian identity - and pride in Algeria's fight against the French - in response to charges, first leveled by a Le Pen flunky but echoed during a torrid Algeria-France match, that Zidane's father had been a harki, the term loosely translated as collaborator and used to describe Algerians who had fought for France in the colonial...
...grew up. And, for me, the most important thing is that I still know who I am. Every day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle [a Berber region of Algeria] from La Castellane, then an Algerian from Marseille, and then a Frenchman...
INDUCTED. Assia Djebar, 69, Algerian writer and filmmaker, into the ?lite Acad?mie fran?aise, its first member from France's former North African colonies; in Paris. In a writing career spanning half a century, Djebar has won acclaim for tackling difficulties faced by women in Muslim societies. Currently a professor of French literature at New York University, Djebar becomes one of only 40 "immortals," as the Acad?mie's members are known...
...predictable rendering of the 1920 Irish battle of Catholic peasants against the Black and Tans; Bruno Dumont's Flandres, a horrifying but uninvolving study of Belgian farmers committing atrocities in an African war; and Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes (Days of Glory), which dramatized the valor of Algerians who fought for the French in World War II, then found their pensions denied them after the Algerian conflict - an inspiring and troubling true story, encased in a deeply ordinary movie. A pair of young U.S. directors tried their hand at political statements, but fell, respectively, into obviousness and incoherence. Richard...