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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCommemoration and counter-memory of the Algerian liberation and civil war: calls for an inclusive approachThe politics of rememberance in Algeria between the Liberation War of 1954, and the Civil War of the 1990s
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFighting for climate/environmental justice in the MaghrebEnvironmental problems need to be analysed in a comprehensive way with consideration to social justice, entitlements...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSowing the seeds of conflict in the Middle EastWhatever else they were guilty of, the two authors of the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, George Bush and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAn open letter on enforced disappearances: the Algerian experienceIn tribute to the courageous struggle of mothers and wives of the disappeared and in memory of my cellmates who...
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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: North Africa, West AsiaHigher education reform in Algeria: reading between the linesThe LMD reforms have tied the fate of the Algerian higher education sector to European intellectual and economic...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAlgeria’s transition to uncertaintyAlgeria is facing succession scrambles and economic crisis. Why are the country’s leaders handing the country over...
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Published in: 50.50Your fatwa does not apply hereThe UN Human Rights Council has appointed Karima Bennoune as Special Rapporteur in the field of Cultural Rights....
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia'Something wicked this way comes': the Arab transitions (part 1)An excerpt from a NOREF report on the background to the current situation in the Middle East, focusing on the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhy does the Algerian regime fear Rachad?In light of propaganda against the movement, media censorship, book banning and bogus Interpol arrest warrants...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaDiscovering Diwane: ancestral African ritual musicThe history of Algerian Diwane is as rich as the musical tradition itself. Gaâda Diwane de Béchar are playing at...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe wretched of the sea: an Algerian perspectiveThe securitisation of immigration control has failed to solve the migrant crisis because it ignores the root cause:...
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Published in: HomeAlgeria: diplomacy and regional security
Algeria's efforts to resolve crises in Libya and Mali are informed by its longstanding experience of regional diplomacy.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA question of sovereignty, justice and dignity: the people vs. the government on fracking in AlgeriaThe call for national mobilisation to oppose shale-gas exploitation in Algeria has been a success. But despite...
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Published in: HomeLibya, containing the danger
The chaos in Libya will not be stopped by lazy rhetoric or easy options. The country's neighbours, Tunisia and...
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Published in: 50.50Rest in power, Assia Djebar
Why is it that the homeland always rejects its most erudite children? Latefa Guemar pays tribute to the feminist...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaProtests in Algeria intensify as shale-gas drilling continuesThe ongoing anti-shale gas protests in southern Algeria look increasingly like a head-to-head confrontation between...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaShale gas in Algeria: anger mounts as the government lies by omissionProtests break out across Algeria against the shale drilling ambitions of the government and European multinationals.
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Published in: HomeFrance's identity crisis: seeds of change
The traumatic attacks in Paris provoked agonised public debate. But to be productive this needs to range more deeply...
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Published in: 50.50"Truth needs witnesses"The column Saïd Mekbel published the day before he was assassinated in 1994 remains sadly topical today - recalling...
