Essays - Spring 2006

On the Outside Looking In

Paris and its banlieues in November 2005

By Nancy Honicker

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Nancy Honicker , associate professor of English at the Université de Paris 8, is a writer who has lived in France for 20 years. She is working on a book about the Paris banlieues.