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This book investigates the lives and stories of queer Maghrebi and Maghrebi French men who moved to or grew up in contemporary France. It combines original French language data from my ethnographic fieldwork in France with a wide array of recent narratives and cultural productions including performance art and photography, films, novels, autobiographies, published letters, and other first-person essays to investigate how these queer men living in France and the diaspora stake claims to time and space, construct kinship, and imagine their own future. By closely examining empirical evidence from the lived experiences of these queer Maghrebi French-speakers, this book presents a variety of paths available to these men who articulate and pioneer their own sexual difference within their families of origin and contemporary French society. These sexual minorities of North African origin may explain their homosexuality in terms of a 2modern coming out3 narrative when living in France. Nevertheless, they are able to negotiate cultural hybridity and flexible language, temporalities, and filiations, that combine elements from a variety of discourses on family, honor, face-saving, the symbolic order of gender differences, gender equality, as well as the western and largely neoliberal constructs of individualism and sexual autonomy. --

Intro -- FEDERAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND GRANTS FOR THE DISADVANTAGED -- FEDERAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND GRANTS FOR THE DISADVANTAGED -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 THE TRIO PROGRAMS -- SUMMARY -- BACKGROUND -- PIPELINE OF TRIO PROGRAMS -- TRIO Upward Bound (UB) Program -- Eligible Recipients -- Program Participants -- Program Intensity and Activities -- Outcome Criteria -- TRIO Talent Search (TS) Program -- Eligible Recipients -- Program Participants -- Program Intensity and Activities -- Outcome Criteria -- TRIO Educational Opportunity Centers (EOC) Program -- Eligible Recipients -- Program Participants -- Program Intensity and Activities -- Outcome Criteria -- TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) Program -- Eligible Recipients -- Program Participants -- Program Intensity and Activities -- Outcome Criteria -- Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement(McNair) Program -- Eligible Recipients -- Program Participants -- Program Intensity and Activities -- Outcome Criteria -- TRIO Staff Development (Training) Program -- Eligible Recipients -- Program Participants -- Program Intensity and Activities -- Outcome Criteria -- Comparison of Key Features of the TRIO Programs -- PROGRAM APPROPRIATIONS AND PROJECT PARTICIPANTS -- MAJOR HEOA AMENDMENTS TO COMMON TRIO PROVISIONS -- Required Program Activities -- Prior Experience Points -- Application Review Process (Appeal) -- Award Amounts and Numbers of Program Participants -- Length of Grant Award -- Multiple Grants for Different Populations -- RESEARCH, EVALUATION, AND ASSESSMENTS -- SSS Independent Evaluations -- SSS PART Reviews and Annual Performance Report Data -- UB Independent Evaluations -- UB PART Review and Annual Performance Report Data -- TS Evaluations -- TS PART Review and Annual Performance Report Data -- EOC Evaluations -- EOC PART Review and Annual Performance Report Data

In this book Denis M. Provencher examines the tensions between Anglo-American and French articulations of homosexuality and sexual citizenship in the context of contemporary French popular culture and first-person narratives. In the light of recent political events and the perceived hegemonic role of US forces throughout the world, an examination of the French resistance to globalization and 'Americanization', is timely in this context. He argues that contemporary French gay and lesbian cultures rely on long-standing French narratives that resist US models of gay experience. He maintains that French gay experiences are mitigated through (gay) French language that draws on several canonical voices - including Jean Genet and Jean-Paul Sartre - and various universalistic discourses. Drawing on material from a diverse array of media, Queer French draws out the importance of a French gay linguistic and semiotic tradition that emerges in contemporary textual practices and discourses as they relate to sexual citizenship in 20th- and 21st-century France. It will appeal to an interdisciplinary readership in gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, linguistics, media and communication studies and French studies.

Young Bassett and the show business of sports -- Show business leads to sports business -- Battle for the hockey heart and soul of Toronto -- No defense, no discipline, no more Toronto -- No, Canada : the WFL Northmen and Canadian Anti-Americanism -- Bassett becomes a political football -- The best of a bad league -- Too good for the WFL, not enough for the NFL -- Selling hockey in Alabama -- Emancipation of the Canadian juniors -- Tennis, the USFL and the bandits -- Bandit-ball -- The model USFL franchise -- The death of the USFL and Bassett.

Frankreich steht im Begriff, seinen Interventionskurs im Sahel zu ändern. Nach einem Mini-Aufwuchs von 600 zusätzlichen Soldaten seit Februar 2020 wird die Antiterror-Operation Barkhane wahrscheinlich auf das vorherige Niveau zurückgeführt werden. Mittelfristig sind weitere Reduzierungen möglich. Auch politisch kommt Bewegung in die französische Sahelpolitik, weil Paris ein Gleichgewicht anstrebt zwischen einem geringeren militärischen Fußabdruck, Terrorismusbekämpfung und größerer lokaler Verantwortung.

Der Bundestag hat Ende Mai die Mandate zur Beteiligung der Bundeswehr an militärischen Einsätzen der Europäischen Union (EUTM Mali) und der Vereinten Nationen (MINUSMA) in Mali verlängert. Damit können insgesamt bis zu 1550 deutsche Soldatinnen und Soldaten in Mali und im Sahel eingesetzt werden, mehr als derzeit in Afghanistan. Gemessen am Ausmaß des Einsatzes verläuft die deutsche Diskussion über die Sahelpolitik schleppend, wenig ergiebig und allzu routiniert. Ein Grund dafür ist, dass Schlagworte und vermeintliche Gewissheiten ('vernetzte Sicherheit', 'Militarisierung', 'mehr lokale Eigenverantwortung') die Debatte bestimmen, die weitgehend losgelöst von strategischen Zusammenhängen und Überlegungen eingeworfen werden.

Am 30. Juni 2019 endet das Mandat der United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (Minusma). Eine Verlängerung des Mandats durch den VN-Sicherheitsrat gilt als sicher. Dabei ist unklar, welchen Beitrag die Mission zur Stabilisierung Malis zu leisten vermag und wie das Mandat geändert werden könnte, um die Mission effektiver zu gestalten. Angesichts der sich verändernden Rahmenbedingungen in Mali sollte der Sicherheitsrat ein stärkeres Minusma-Engagement in Zentralmali erwägen. Dafür müssen aber auch Abstriche im Norden gemacht werden.

Während sich die Sicherheitslage in Mali und seinen Grenzgebieten stetig verschlechtert, hat die neue 'gemeinsame Truppe' (Force Conjointe, FC) der G5-Sahel-Staaten Mitte November ihre erste Militäroperation abgeschlossen. Sie soll einen regionalen Beitrag zum Kampf gegen Terrorismus und Kriminalität leisten. Am 13. Dezember wird in Paris eine Geberkonferenz stattfinden, um weitere finanzielle Unterstützung und Ausstattungshilfe für die FC zu mobilisieren. Bei diesem Vorhaben sind Deutschland und die EU an der Seite Frankreichs stark engagiert. Die Anstrengungen, regionale Streitkräfte zu befähigen, sind aber mit Problemen behaftet: Die internationalen Partner ziehen einen Capacity-Building-Ansatz, der auf kurzfristige Erfolge ausgerichtet ist, einer Reform des Sicherheitssektors vor und verfolgen keine abgestimmte Strategie. Mali wiederum hält am Status quo fest und ist nicht bereit, politische Eigenverantwortung zu übernehmen

In this essay, I analyze the speech acts of Farid, a thirty-six year old self-identified same-sex desiring man from my fieldwork, who recounts his trajectory from growing up in Algiers and his eventual migration as an adult to Angers and then Paris. I illustrate how his queer Maghrebi French story in the diaspora does not resonate significantly with the "coming out" (Provencher 2007) or "arrival" narratives (Schehr 2009) of other queer French speakers in the city. Moreover, his speech acts do not heavily echo the "flexible language" (Leap 2003) or the language of queer diasporic speakers analyzed in other contexts (Decena 2011, Manalansan 2003). Furthermore, unlike other queer Maghrebi French interlocutors — who exploit their artistic crafts such as photography, filmmaking, and creative writing to pioneer new scripts or "performative encounters" (Rosello 2005) between France and the Maghreb — Farid struggles to tell a coherent story as he remains caught between the teleologies of the Maghrebi family in Algiers on the one hand and neoliberalism and its concomitant homonormativity in "gay" Paris on the other. The linguistic dimensions of Farid's impossible "je" [I] are evident in his use of statements that highlight the collective with the subject pronouns "we" and "they" as well as topic sentences that underscore subjects like "my family," "the country," and "my religion." At the same time, he draws on fragmented and unstable identities in a series of disconnected "je" statements, often with conditional clauses and modality shifts that highlight flux instead of the ego-centered, liberated, and individual subject who must learn to say "je" assuredly in the indicative tense in the late modern era. At times, he remains an "impossible subject" in an "impossible location" (Raissiguier 2010) unable to find financial and emotional stability almost three years after leaving Algiers and arriving in France where he fails to imagine a "queer future" for himself. Hence, this study illustrates how the celebration of chaos and subversion (for example, Halberstam's (2011) "queer art of failure") is not always readily available to subjects like Farid, who have not (yet) acquired the "flexible language" or the economic and cultural capital in an urban setting.