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Four years ago, I made an episode titled “Should we boycott the Qatar World Cup?” As you might remember, the tournament in Qatar was surrounded by criticism. There were concerns about human rights, especially the treatment of migrant workers who helped build the stadiums. There w ...  Show more

In the 1870s, about ten percent of Africa had been colonised by European countries. But over the next few decades, over ninety percent of the continent was taken, occupied, divided, and partitioned by governments far away in places like London, Berlin, and Paris. We call this per ...  Show more

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La France va doubler l'aide financière aux écoles chrétiennes d'Orient. Une décision surprenante pour un pays qui s'en ...  Show more

Le dimanche 28 août, à moins d’une semaine de la rentrée scolaire, le nouveau ministre de l’Education nationale annonce <a href="https://www.leparisien.fr/societe/nouveaux-textes-dialogue-avec-les-eleves-role-des-proviseurs-comment-labaya-va-etre-interdite-a-lecole-28-08-2023- ...

This is a conversation with Rim-Sarah Alouane. She’s a French legal academic, commentator, and PhD candidate in law researching religious  freedom, human rights, and civil liberties in France, Europe & North America.

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Have you ever dreamed of going to school in France?

Probably not.

Mostly because people don’t know much about the French Education system, and because studying in your home country was already enough.

But what better way to understand a culture than to loo ...