Contenu du sommaire : Régimes politiques et droits humains au Maghreb

The resistance in southern Lebanon : a defensive strategy with an offensive use, Confluences, since its very beginnings, has always attempted to present the different points of view of current political actors. We received this article from a Lebanese intellectual close to the Hezbollah. We have decided to publish it in order to give an idea of the manner in which this party currently views its conflict with Israel. In the following issue, we will publish the Israeli point of view on the question.

Mohamed VI, leader of the believers coming to the rescue of secularism ? Examining the similarities between the Moroccan reform of the Moudawana and the French law on headscarves is not without its merits. They are both attempts at warning shots : to show, on one hand, Moroccan Islamists that a new king has taken the reigns and that the Islam of the happy medium must be maintained and broadened, and, on the other, to show in France that the gradual erosion of the dominant way of life will not be tolerated. But these two barriers will only hold if modernist thinkers and debaters are put to the forefront, and only if the social separations cease to grow deeper.

Story : The Sultan, Itidal Othman was born in 1942. She studied English literature at the University of Cairo and at the American University in Cairo. She works as an editor at the General Egyptian Organization for the Book, and is also an editorial board member for several literary journals. She is the author of two short story collections : Yûnus wal-Bahr (Jonas and the Sea, 1987) and Wash ash-Shams (Tattoo from the Sun, 1992), as well as several essays of literary criticism, one of which is consecrated to Youssef Idriss.

Premier international film festival in Ramallah, The premier edition of the RIFF (Ramallah International Film Festival) took place July 8th through 14th, 2004 and presented a selection of Palestinian films, often based on the daily reality of the country, as well as a large selection of European films made possible by various partnerships between different European countries.