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AbdouMaliq Simone

AbdouMaliq Simone is senior professorial fellow at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield, and Honorary Professor at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town. icon

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The Criminal’s City

By AbdouMaliq Simone

In a recent French novel, an ordinary woman inadvertently becomes a drug kingpin—and does so by learning to see anew Paris’s urban landscape.

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