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Published in: North Africa, West Asia“We have managed to draw the Algerian regime into a confrontation with its own people”Sidali Kouidri Filali is a 35 year old civil servant and blogger who has chosen to campaign with Barakat to « defend...
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Published in: HomeThe Battle of Algiers: a formative influence on Moroccan cinemaLaying bare the social and economic structures of oppression to reconstruct a national psyche from the ruins – how...
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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: HomeIn short: Dr Meziane Saidi, historian of Algerian War, on Pontecorvo’s The Battle of AlgiersThe film shows a popular revolution above all else.
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Published in: HomePontecorvo's Colonel Mathieu: the paratrooper who embodied FranceWhat we see is a three dimensional character who is eloquent and thoughtful in his actions.
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Published in: HomeAlgerians in London protest against shale gas and the lack of a national debateFracking has raised major concerns for its substantial use of water (particularly worrying for the Sahara) and for...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAlgerian activism: a new generation draws the line
Away from the traditional circles of power, a new force has been working its way up to the surface of the Algerian...
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Published in: HomeThe practice of harm in The Battle of AlgiersIt was the French colonisers, after all, who were bound to international conventions that govern the practice of...
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Published in: HomeFirst encounters with the Battle of AlgiersOn February 6, 2013, the University of Sussex History Department held a special screening of the Battle of Algiers,...
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Published in: HomeIn short: Belkacem Belmekki on The Battle of AlgiersA 36-year old Algerian lecturer from the post-independence generation explains what Gillo Pontecorvo’s film means to him.
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Published in: HomeThe Battle of Algiers transposed into a Palestinian keyCinematic representations of the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation frequently invoke The Battle of...
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Published in: HomeAlgeria, Mali: another front in the “Global War on Terror”?What the Islamist terrorist threat has become is an incoherent pretext to intervene militarily on the part of the...
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Published in: HomeIn Amenas – a history of silence, not a history of violenceIn the latest edition of Textures du temps, a historian’s eye is brought to bear on the discourse prevailing in...
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Published in: HomeTranscending boundaries: Yasmin El Derby on The Battle of AlgiersThe festival director of the London Middle East and North Africa Film Festival talks about the place of Pontecorvo’s...
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Published in: HomeIn short: Ken Loach on The Battle of AlgiersOn 17 December 2012, Ken Loach summed up the personal significance of The Battle of Algiers for him, in our project...
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Published in: HomeGood guys and bad guys: The Battle of Algiers and The Dark Knight RisesThe ‘chaos and fear’ inspired by The Battle of Algiers is certainly there, enhanced by another parallel between the...
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Published in: HomeGenesis of a film: the Battle of AlgiersA 2006 documentary by Yves Boisset uses uncredited extracts from the film, mixed in with actual news reels, without...
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Published in: HomeThe Battle of Algiers: historical truth and filmic representationThe bitter divisions within the FLN are ignored. Instead, Gillo Pontecorvo, in his 1966 film, The Battle of Algiers,...
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Published in: HomeGender, myth, nationalism: Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of AlgiersIn its framing techniques, Pontecorvo’s film arguably defines the ‘people’ in fundamentally masculine terms; as a...
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Published in: HomeA history of Algeria in six objectsContinuing the openDemocracy series marking fifty years of Algerian independence, one of the series editors, Martin...
