The Dominant and the Dominated: A Short Tribute to Albert Memmi

. . .  with an aside on Frantz Fanon and Edward Said

Albert Memmi. Source: https://www.sephardichorizons.org/Volume6/Issue3-4/Macadar.html

I read a couple of days ago of the passing of Albert Memmi, the Tunisian-born Jewish novelist, political thinker, sociologist, and essayist who exiled himself to Paris after Tunisia’s proclamation of independence in 1956.  At his death, on May 22 on the outskirts of Paris, he was just a few months shy of being 100 years old.  I found myself surprised at reading his obituary in the New York Times, if only because it has been years since anyone had ever even mentioned him; to be brutally honest, having known him of him as a writer who had been most active, as I thought, in the 1950s and 1960s, it never occurred to me that