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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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Published in: 50.50From 1990s Algeria to 9/11 and ISIS: understanding the history of "Homo islamicus fundamentalensis"
Today’s brutal jihadists like “Islamic State” follow in the footsteps of fundamentalists who have afflicted Muslim...
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Published in: HomeAlgeria, football, and France's "black box"
The political misuse and misreading of events involving Algerians in France are an obstacle to true understanding.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOne, two, three viva l'Algérie!The match between Algeria and Germany was not solely the sporting equivalent of David and Goliath. The Algerian...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFeeble captain in troubled waters: Algeria’s foreign relations after Bouteflika’s re-electionThe current triple crisis also constitutes a chance for Algeria. More than ever it becomes clear that the country is...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Arab millennials will be back
Like much of the rest of the Arab Spring, the urge of the millennial generation across North Africa and the Middle...
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Published in: 50.50Seeking safety in Algeria: Syrian refugee women’s resilienceFor many Syrian women in Algeria, the gendered experience of violence and displacement has been compounded by the...
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Published in: 50.50Algeria post-election: The democratic struggle continues
Steadfast in the face of a witch-hunt and physical attacks against their members, the Barakat citizen's movement...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhy these Algerian elections are essential
Caught between the dynamic of the Arab Springs and that of the destabilization of the Sahel, the Algerian trajectory...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAlgeria’s presidential elections: a litany of failures by the political class has wasted a golden opportunity for change
Taking place sixty years since the Algerian revolution, today’s presidential elections presented the perfect...
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Published in: HomeNorth African diversities: Algeria in flux
Algeria’s circles of power and their relationship to a complex society and history are hard to grasp. Francis Ghilès...
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Published in: 50.50Algeria: voices for democratic transition cannot be silencedIn the six weeks since the citizens Barakat movement for a free and democratic Algeria was founded it has moved from...
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Published in: 50.50The birth of the Barakat movement in Algeria: Every generation needs hopeNormal 0 "The government did not expect there would be such a vigilant civil society. They thought we were dead, but...
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Published in: 50.50Algerian elections and the Barakat movement: "We are saying no to submission"President Bouteflika and his team broke the people as a whole and Algerians as citizens. Mustapha Benfodil, founding...
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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...
