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Published in: HomeTunisia’s turning pointTunisia’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 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: 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 dieThis 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 pasCette 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?
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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: North Africa, West AsiaBeyond Arab vs Berber: the rich complexities of Algerian identity should be celebrated, not feared
In launching their war of independence in November 1954, Algerians emphatically rejected this divisive bait,...
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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: HomeAQIM: Maghreb to Mali, and back
The crisis in Mali highlights the distinctive character and trajectory of Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb. A group...
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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: North Africa, West AsiaA toxic dependency: Algeria’s love-hate relationship with its oil
This year's 41st anniversary, celebrated two weeks ago, has been marked in particularly gloomy fashion. Reports have...
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