Abstract
This article attempts to answer a question: how far can we view the broadcasting of Arabic-language television in France in the context of a tension between the construction of the Other (and the dangerous difference this implies) and the ways in which the Others so constructed are able to negotiate their status as transnational social actors? Since the early 1990s, these television channels have appeared both to extend and to catalyze the contradictions at work in French society. To extend them, in so far as the opinions expressed, as well as the public actions undertaken, in this domain have often borne the mark of an undisguised hostility closely related to the inherited representations of colonialism (intrinsic differences, special cases, etc.), and to catalyze them, because history does not precisely repeat itself; the many different ways in which these channels are received (from indifference to infatuation) by the communities formed by postcolonial immigration call into question those very representations and require us to conceive of a transnationality not confined by place (here versus there).
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