by Gilles Kepel · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782072701290
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«La Fracture» is Gilles Kepel's essay on France in the 2015-2016 attacks, published by Gallimard in 2016, in paperback and in French.
Collects the chronicles Gilles Kepel broadcast on France Culture between 2015 and 2016. It analyses the jihadist attacks in France, from the Charlie Hebdo attack to the murder of Father Hamel, and how terrorism seeks to fracture society by pitting communities against each other. It examines the political exploitation of fear and defends a lucid civic commitment.
Published on 4 November 2016 by Gallimard, with France Culture. Some editions list it as «La Fracture: Chroniques 2015-2016».
Aimed at readers interested in French politics and in the analysis of terrorism and current affairs.
Gilles Kepel is a French political scientist and Arabist, specialized in the contemporary Middle East and Muslims in the West. He was a professor at Sciences Po Paris, and Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) university, where he was the director of the Middle East and Mediterranean Program. His book Away from Chaos: The Middle East and the Challenge to the West was reviewed by The New York Times as "an excellent primer for anyone wanting to get up to speed on the region." His essay Le Prophète et la Pandémie / du Moyen-Orient au jihadisme d'atmosphère topped the best-seller lists, and was translated into English as well as several other languages.
