Mahfoud Bennoune (1936-2004) was born in a peasant family in northeastern Algerian, served in the National Liberation Front during the country's war of independence and was imprisoned by the French military for four years. A professor of sociology at the University of Algiers, he was a prolific author in Arabic, French and English, publishing The Making of Contemporary Algeria, 1830-1987, with Cambridge University Press.
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Published in: 50.50Jihadist "crimes that surpass all understanding": a letter from 1995 AlgeriaIn this letter written during Algeria’s “dark decade” of fundamentalist violence - sadly relevant today - Mahfoud...
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Published in: 50.50From 1990s Algeria to Iraq today: trampling Islam underfoot in the name of JihadWhat is the ideology motivating alleged “warriors of God” to “trample Islam underfoot in the name of Jihad”?...
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Published in: 50.50From 1990s Algeria to 9/11 and ISIS: understanding the history of "Homo islamicus fundamentalensis"
Today’s brutal jihadists like “Islamic State” follow in the footsteps of fundamentalists who have afflicted Muslim...
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Published in: 50.50Algeria and Nigeria: sharing the deadweight of human mindlessness
Wole Soyinka believed that one of the best ways to comprehend the kind of horror that is happening in Nigeria is to...