$28.00 paper. ISBN: 0231154933 A Desert Named Peace takes a look behind the benign façade of France’s “mission civilisatrice” and finds it wanting. After a brief look at the initial French invasion ...

It takes two hours and 15 minutes to fly from Algiers to Djanet, Algeria, a tiny town in the Sahara Desert. By the time we landed, late at night, we had covered roughly the same distance from ...