La séduction et l’idéologie : sémantique, syntaxe, argumentation by Jean SZLAMOWICZ

“…In this instance, seduction is a rhetorical battle between logos and pathos.Studying the vocabulary of wine tasting, then other fields with more of an ideological stake, such as antisemitism, the article will show how political activism enlists seductive values as a strategy to win the audience over.The article will stress the role of incantatory importance of ‘word ethos’ and will develop the concept of hypostello, to mean a rhetorical strategy of hiding one’s intentions. …”
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“Such Common Objects” – The Politics of Everyday Life in G. K. Chesterton’s and Rose Macaulay’s Thing-Essays by Daniel SCHNEIDER

“…In this article I argue that so-called light essays on apparently trivial items as they were published in periodicals of the early 20th century use the specificities of the essay genre to unveil dimensions of everyday life that are often taken for granted and thus overlooked. …”
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Une éducation sentimentale ou le roman d’amour de Salammbô by Geneviève Mondon

“…By intentionally putting aside the main issues of the novel, the historic war of Carthage, the mythic battle between Tanit and Moloch, great History and mythology, battles and massacres, the focus is on the sentimental adventure, which, as the author well knows, is a must in a historic novel.  …”
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Would-be places for displaced Afghans – The UNHCR, landless returnees and the enforcement of the national order by Giulia Scalettaris

“…This article examines the role of the UNHCR in the launch of a scheme fostering the creation of new settlements across Afghanistan in order to accommodate landless returnees. …”
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De la « Défense sacrée » (1980-1988) à la « Défense des Lieux saints » (2012-2017) by Agnès Devictor

“…It questions how directors have staged the great story of the Battle of Karbalâ to define the war and support the national mobilization between 1980 and 1988, and drew upon a Shii imaginary both narratively and formally, while other directors used references detached from any religious link. …”
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Le mahdi oublié de l'Inde britannique : Sayyid Ahmad Barelwî (1786-1831), ses disciples, ses adversaires by Marc Gaborieau

“…This Naqshbandi Sufi, who was successively a soldier and a religious reformer, launched ajihâdin 1826 against the Sikhs and the British presence in India : he mysteriously disappeared in a battle, and his disciples awaited his reappearance as a mahdi for more than half of a century. …”
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Uncanny Beloveds and the Return of the Repressed by Maya Petrovich

“…The study demonstrates that complex cyclical processes of fluidity and crystallization were always operative within Ottoman perceptions and their definitions of non-Ottoman peoples, including the Tatars.…”
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North African and Omani Ibâḍî Accounts of the Munâẓâra: A Preliminary Comparison by Adam Gaiser

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Censorship and Creativity: The Case of Sampson Perry, Radical Editor in 1790s Paris and London by Rachel Rogers

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Propagande française en Irlande  pendant la Première Guerre mondiale : autopsie d’un échec by Jérôme aan de Wiel

“…The French government deemed that tens of thousands of Irishmen could be recruited, and Irish recruitment was all the more important since the human cost of the battles of Verdun and the Somme was ghastly. The French knew the British were in a most awkward situation in Ireland, especially after the Easter Rising of April 1916. …”
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Le coq médiéval by Michel Pastoureau

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Le discours mémoriel ottoman au musée naval d’Istanbul by Juliette Dumas

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Une nouvelle génération féministe au sein de l’islam traditionaliste : Une exception indonésienne ? by Andrée Feillard, Pieternella van Doorn-Harder

“…Deeply rooted in Islamic knowledge and being connected to a wide network of Islamic education, they represent a unique, indigenous form of Islamic feminism defending their own cause, no longer that of the men.We argue that this pivotal role played in Indonesia by feminists of Traditionalist Islam is partly due to the low profile of secular feminists who have been intimidated by special historical circumstances, the suppression of the left in 1965 and the derogatory discourse concerning Muslims with Hindu-Buddhist background in Java, delegitimized as belonging to the “abangan” category. …”
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An Illustration of Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Perinatal Depression by Huey Jing Renee Tan

“…The depressive episode began in the context of interpersonal difficulties with her husband. In addition, she was also battling an internal conflict of continuing to pursue her career dream as an obstetrician and fulfilling her responsibility as a wife and a mother. …”
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