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Compromise with political Islam is impossible

Published on: 14 September 2014

Written by: Salah Chouaki All articles by Salah Chouaki

On the 20th anniversary of the fundamentalist assassination of Algerian educator Salah Chouaki, Karima Bennoune...
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From 1990s Algeria to Iraq today: trampling Islam underfoot in the name of Jihad

Published on: 11 September 2014

Written by: Mahfoud Bennoune All articles by Mahfoud Bennoune

What is the ideology motivating alleged “warriors of God” to “trample Islam underfoot in the name of Jihad”?...
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From 1990s Algeria to 9/11 and ISIS: understanding the history of "Homo islamicus fundamentalensis"

Published on: 11 September 2014

Written by: Mahfoud Bennoune All articles by Mahfoud Bennoune

Today’s brutal jihadists like “Islamic State” follow in the footsteps of fundamentalists who have afflicted Muslim...
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Desolation and despair in Libya: the murder of Salwa Bugaighis

Published on: 3 July 2014

Written by: Lindsey Hilsum All articles by Lindsey Hilsum

Looking back, it feels as if Salwa Bugaighis embodied not the hopes and aspirations of the majority of her country's...
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Algeria and Nigeria: sharing the deadweight of human mindlessness

Published on: 17 May 2014

Written by: Mahfoud Bennoune All articles by Mahfoud Bennoune

Wole Soyinka believed that one of the best ways to comprehend the kind of horror that is happening in Nigeria is to...
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Algeria twenty years on: words do not die

Published on: 24 June 2013

Written by: Karima Bennoune All articles by Karima Bennoune

This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Algerian jihadists war on culture. Those who waged the intellectual...

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