Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Hicham Yezza is an Algerian writer and human rights activist. He is the editor-in-chief of Ceasefire Magazine. Follow him on Twitter: @HichamYezza and @Ceasefire_Mag
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAlgeria’s presidential elections: a litany of failures by the political class has wasted a golden opportunity for changeTaking place sixty years since the Algerian revolution, today’s presidential elections presented the perfect...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAlgerian-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...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAlgeria: Bouteflika strikes back
As next year’s presidential elections loom larger on the national horizon, the country seems to be heading towards a...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEdward Said - 10 years onA decade after his premature departure, Said’s life, in all its “disorganised, scattered, uncentred” richness will...
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Published in: HomeWhat Algeria 1992 can, and cannot, teach us about Egypt 2013In the weeks after the 1991 elections, official Algerian rhetoric too was replete with appeals to the popular will...
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Published in: HomeAlgeria 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...