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Published in: 50.50For Aziz Smati on Valentine's Day
In honour of the determination of people like Algerian TV producer, Aziz Smati, who was shot exactly twenty years...
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Published in: 50.50Pour Aziz Smati, pour la Saint Valentin
Pour rendre hommage à la détermination de gens comme le producteur Algérien Aziz Smati, qui était victime d’un...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Bring it on! Russell Brand and revolution
The revolutionary left denounces Russell Brand, but the poor know he is right. His lack of a proper alternative...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThis week's window on the Middle East - November 5, 2013
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East....
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAlgerian-Moroccan relations: between tensions and hopes
How the two sides can find a workable arrangement that doesn’t look like a climb-down by either party remains to be...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThis week's window on the Middle East - October 25, 2013
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East....
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAlgeria: Bouteflika strikes back
As next year’s presidential elections loom larger on the national horizon, the country seems to be heading towards a...
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Published in: HomeTunisia’s turning point
Tunisia’s second high-profile political assassination highlights the gravest shortcoming of the nascent Islamist...
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Published in: HomeWhat Algeria 1992 can, and cannot, teach us about Egypt 2013
In the weeks after the 1991 elections, official Algerian rhetoric too was replete with appeals to the popular will...
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Published in: 50.50Algeria: the real lessons for Egypt
For all its problems, Algeria never became an Islamic state. Like Algerian progressives in the 1990s, Egyptian...
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Published in: HomeThis week's window on the Middle East - July 10, 2013
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East....
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Published in: HomeAlgeria 1992 and Egypt 2013: the moral costs
While there are too many differences between the two historical contexts for us to panic, the parallels are too...
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Published in: 50.50Algeria: When the Rivers Turned Black
Fundamentalist mass murder of Algerian people of letters in the 1990s was an intellectocide, in the tradition of...
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Published in: 50.50Algérie: Quand les fleuves sont devenus noirs
L'assassinat massif des intellectuels algériens par les intégristes dans les années 1990 est un veritable...
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Published in: 50.50Algeria twenty years on: words do not die
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Algerian jihadists war on culture. Those who waged the intellectual...
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Published in: 50.50Algérie vingt ans plus tard : les mots ne meurent pas
Cette année marque le vingtième anniversaire de la guerre menée par des djihadistes algériens contre la culture....
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Published in: HomeA chronology of crisis in the Sahel
Awareness has not necessarily translated into more investment in good governance or poverty-reduction programmes....
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Published in: HomeNorth African diversities: Algerian tales, Maghrebi dreams
A career in journalism took Francis Ghilès to the heart of power in the post-independence states of Algeria, Morocco...
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Published in: HomeIn short: Dr Meziane Saidi, historian of Algerian War, on Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers
The film shows a popular revolution above all else.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAlgeria: has the post-Bouteflika era already begun?
Might the end of one of the most remarkable, and defining, of political careers in Algeria’s history be upon us?