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Published on: 11 September 2014

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Published on: 11 September 2014

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Today’s brutal jihadists like “Islamic State” follow in the footsteps of fundamentalists who have afflicted Muslim...
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Published on: 3 July 2014

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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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Published on: 17 May 2014

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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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