Open letter : on blasphemy, Islamophobia, and the true enemies of free expression / Charb ; with a foreword by Adam Gopnik.
On January 7, 2015, two gunmen stormed the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. They took the lives of twelve men and women, but they called for one man by name: "Charb": Stéphane Charbonnier, editor in chief. He had finished this book just two days before his murder o...
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| Other title: | Lettre aux escrocs de l'islamophobie qui font le jeu des racistes. English |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
2016.
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| Edition: | First English language edition. |
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| Summary: | On January 7, 2015, two gunmen stormed the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. They took the lives of twelve men and women, but they called for one man by name: "Charb": Stéphane Charbonnier, editor in chief. He had finished this book just two days before his murder on the very issues at the heart of the attacks: blasphemy, Islamophobia, and the necessary courage of satirists. "On January 7, 2015, two gunmen stormed the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. They took the lives of twelve men and women, but they called for one man by name: "Charb." Known by his pen name, Stéphane Charbonnier was editor in chief of Charlie Hebdo, an outspoken critic of religious fundamentalism, and a renowned political cartoonist in his own right. In the past, he had received death threats and had even earned a place on Al Qaeda's "Most Wanted List." On January 7 it seemed that Charb's enemies had finally succeeded in silencing him. But in a twist of fate befitting Charb's defiant nature, it was soon revealed that he had finished a book just two days before his murder on the very issues at the heart of the attacks: blasphemy, Islamophobia, and the necessary courage of satirists." -- Publisher's description. |
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| Item Description: | "A posthumous manifesto by the editor in chief of Charlie Hebdo." -- Dust jacket. "Originally published in France as Lettre aux escrocs de l'islamophobie qui font le jeu des racistes, April 2015." -- Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 82 pages ; 19 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780316311335 (hbk) 0316311332 (hbk) |
| Language: | Translated from the French. |