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Edwy Plenel is an award-winning journalist, former Editorial Director of Le Monde, essayist, and cofounder of the independent journalism platform Mediapart. He is the author of For the Muslims- Islamophobia in France. Luke Leafgren is an Assistant Dean of Harvard College. He has translated seven novels from Arabic and has twice received the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, in 2018 for Muhsin Al-Ramli's The President's Gardens and in 2023 for Najwa Barakat's Mister N.
“Insistently historical, geopolitically capacious, Edwy Plenel’s The Garden and the Jungle is bracing. It insists that we take a step back so that we face, without flinching, the truth of our world. Because it is only in so doing that we can undo the ugliness that has for too long marred human existence.” —Grant Farred, author of The Perversity of Gratitude: An Apartheid Education and Grievance: In Fragments Praise for For the Muslims: “Thank goodness for this humane, civilized, and morally brave book. It speaks important truths which these days are much too rarely heard.” —Peter Oborne “An important book about one of the most pressing issues facing modern Europe. Insightful, historically grounded, and detailed, it’s required reading.” —Murtaza Hussain “An urgent and necessary warning cry against hatred and the politics of fear and indifference that fuels it.” —Simon Hooper
