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Citiscape by CitizOn est une série de podcasts consacrés aux villes marocaines et à celles et ceux qui les traversent, les filment, les habitent ou les transforment. Un personnage, un quartier, un moment, une ambiance... On y parle de cinéma, de sport, d’architecture, de mémoire populaire, de ce qui fait battre les villes du Maroc de l’intérieur. Citiscape vous propose une écoute sensible et documentée, à la croisée de l'histoire urbaine, de la culture et du récit.

In this provocative book one of the most brilliant scholars of religion today dismantles distorted religious "histories" offered up by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and other contemporary critics of religion and advocates of atheism. David Bentley Hart provides a bold correction of the New Atheists’s misrepresentations of the Christian past, countering their polemics with a brilliant account of Christianity and its message of human charity as the most revolutionary movement in all of Western history.

This rollicking and panoramic history of Casablanca during the Second World War sheds light on the city as a key hub for European and American powers, and a place where spies, soldiers, and political agents exchanged secrets and vied for control. In November 1942, as a part of Operation Torch...

Making War at Fort Hood offers an illuminating look at war through the daily lives of the people whose job it is to produce it. Kenneth MacLeish conducted a year of intensive fieldwork among soldiers and their families at and around the US Army's Fort Hood in central Texas. He shows how war's reach extends far beyond the battlefield into military communities where violence is as routine, boring, and normal as it is shocking and traumatic.