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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 securityAlgeria'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...
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Published in: HomeRedefining the poor as “terrorists”Most so-called “terrorist” activity is a by-product of neoliberalism’s on-going crisis and its marginalisation of a...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe refutation of the Djerejian doctrineWhen, rarely, Middle East elections take place, the Djerejian doctrine seems confirmed. But it is the west who only...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIS in Algeria: serious threat or publicity stunt?
The latest act of violence may be part of a pattern of opportunist 'career advancement' for the leader of Jund El...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWomen and jihad
Much has been made in the media of the women jihadists of IS, but this kind of violence by women is not...
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Published in: 50.50Compromise with political Islam is impossibleOn the 20th anniversary of the fundamentalist assassination of Algerian educator Salah Chouaki, Karima Bennoune...
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Published in: 50.50From 1990s Algeria to Iraq today: trampling Islam underfoot in the name of Jihad
What is the ideology motivating alleged “warriors of God” to “trample Islam underfoot in the name of Jihad”?...
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