Paris’s core and its banlieues constitute radically separate worlds for Arab Africans

Evidence

Malik and I had left downtown Paris only an hour earlier, but after a short drive were submerged in a radically different world. The pristine avenues and gothic buildings were replaced with hardened streets and unsightly tenements. A world where the cold stares that locked on me, an Arab African, and my friend, an Amazigh African, were thawed by the warm embraces of those who knew us as habibi (beloved) and akh (brother) instead of as prospective terrorists. The love there thawed the cold in the center of Paris. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 743

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s existing piece on tamarisk/as trees as infrastructure — the idea of a parallel, hidden city the center refuses to acknowledge rhymes with hidden living infrastructure.