Hicham Yezza - openDemocracy

Algeria’s presidential elections: a litany of failures by the political class has wasted a golden opportunity for change

Taking place sixty years since the Algerian revolution, today’s presidential elections presented the perfect occasion for the country to turn a new leaf after decades of mismanagement and stagnation. Instead, a litany of political and moral failures by the political class has turned a golden oppor

By Hicham Yezza

/ 17 Apr 2014

Algeria’s presidential elections: a litany of failures by the political class has wasted a golden opportunity for change

Taking place sixty years since the Algerian revolution, today’s presidential elections presented the perfect occasion for the country to turn a new leaf after decades of mismanagement and stagnation. Instead, a litany of political and moral failures by the political class has turned a golden oppor

By Hicham Yezza

/ 17 Apr 2014

Algerian-Moroccan relations: between tensions and hopes

How the two sides can find a workable arrangement that doesn’t look like a climb-down by either party remains to be seen, but as things stand, the ingredients for further escalation are all too present.

By Hicham Yezza

/ 5 Nov 2013

Algerian-Moroccan relations: between tensions and hopes

How the two sides can find a workable arrangement that doesn’t look like a climb-down by either party remains to be seen, but as things stand, the ingredients for further escalation are all too present.

By Hicham Yezza

/ 5 Nov 2013

Algeria: Bouteflika strikes back

As next year’s presidential elections loom larger on the national horizon, the country seems to be heading towards a political non-event.

By Hicham Yezza

/ 23 Oct 2013

Algeria: Bouteflika strikes back

As next year’s presidential elections loom larger on the national horizon, the country seems to be heading towards a political non-event.

By Hicham Yezza

/ 23 Oct 2013

Edward Said - 10 years on

A decade after his premature departure, Said’s life, in all its “disorganised, scattered, uncentred” richness will continue to radiate moral and intellectual sustenance, as well as untold surprises and delights.

By Hicham Yezza

/ 26 Sep 2013

Edward Said - 10 years on

A decade after his premature departure, Said’s life, in all its “disorganised, scattered, uncentred” richness will continue to radiate moral and intellectual sustenance, as well as untold surprises and delights.

By Hicham Yezza

/ 26 Sep 2013

What Algeria 1992 can, and cannot, teach us about Egypt 2013

In the weeks after the 1991 elections, official Algerian rhetoric too was replete with appeals to the popular will and the promises of a swift and total return to democracy. Promises that, two decades on, have yet to be fulfilled.

By Hicham Yezza

/ 23 Jul 2013

Algeria 1992 and Egypt 2013: the moral costs

While there are too many differences between the two historical contexts for us to panic, the parallels are too numerous to ignore. An excerpt from the longer version of this article – for which, see here.

By Hicham Yezza

/ 9 Jul 2013

Western Sahara: the inconvenient uprising nobody wants to talk (or hear) about

While many praise the remarkable determination of Sahrawi activists to maintain the peaceful character of their struggle, others signal this as a key factor behind their failure to secure a just resolution.

By Hicham Yezza

/ 17 Jun 2013

Western Sahara: the inconvenient uprising nobody wants to talk (or hear) about

While many praise the remarkable determination of Sahrawi activists to maintain the peaceful character of their struggle, others signal this as a key factor behind their failure to secure a just resolution.

By Hicham Yezza

/ 17 Jun 2013