AUGUST 2019 | NO 1908

MAGHREB

WEST AFRICA

UNITED STATES

RUSSIA

Tunisia’s unequal inheritance rules The racism shaping Mauritania today Solidarity loses out to identity culture The traditional summer retreat is emptying out Most women still only get half their brothers’ shares of all family wealth | AKRAM BELKAÏD ▶ p7

White is worth more than black, with few safety valves in a strict religious society | PIERRE DAUM ▶ p8

Culture now views class as a personal problem without any political redress | RICK FANTASIA ▶ p10

Russians are deserting their dachas to holiday abroad, and buy supermarket produce | CHRISTOPHE TRONTIN ▶ p12

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Serbia and Kosovo consider redrawing their borders JEAN-ARNAULT DÉRENS & LAURENT GESLIN ▶ p3

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