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Paris Exhibit Takes Long View of Soccer and a Post-Colonial, Multi-Cultural
Society

Lisa Bryant

   PARIS - As Algeria takes on Senegal in Friday's Africa Cup of Nations
   final, a Paris exhibit takes the long view of soccer(football) --
   exploring its multi-faceted link to people and politics in the Arab
   world, and former colonial power France.

   In a darkened room, children watch a replay of the 1998 world cup final
   that took place years before they were born. There's the intent face of
   Zinedine Zidane, the star French player of Berber origin.He counted
   among France's winning, multicultural team, that rallied the nation
   under the slogan "black, blanc, beur," or "black, white, Arab."

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