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Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa.

Publication: African Studies Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa.(Book review)

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Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa. Richard C. Keller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 294 pp.

In July 2008, the French President Nicolas Sarkozy implemented the next stage in his pet project to build a geopolitical Mediterranean Union linking Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Maghrebian critics were quick to voice their suspicions at this EU-endorsed plan which revived bitter memories of French colonialism, especially given Sarkozy's grandiose allusions to ancient unity under the Roman Empire. Libya, in particular, objected to the project with Moammar Qaddafi highlighting the cultural differences between Europe and the Maghreb:

Do we share a culture with Europe? Absolutely not. We each have our own culture. In Scandinavia, people walk around naked. Can you walk around naked in Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, or Libya? They would stone you and throw you into a mental hospital. But in Scandinavia, it is common to see people walk around naked. That's their culture....

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