Notes
1
Charles Baudelaire, Le peintre de la vie moderne (The Painter of Modern Life), 1863.
2
Nicole Avril, Le Roman du visage (Paris: Plon, 2000).
3
L'Amour en plus : histoire de l'amour maternel (XVIIe-XXe siècle) (Paris: Flammarion, 1980).
4
Bertrand Russell, Religion and Science (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).
5
This image was published in Malaly newspaper, Kabul, fall 1999. No one was certain at the time whether the Taliban sought to propagate these types of images or not. But after a short time, during the war in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was proud to be responsible for them. For him, these images became a means of making an example of his victims as a warning to his enemies.
Translated from the Arabic by Nour Dados.
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