European intellectuals cling to the myth of the Algerian Revolution, and project their disillusionment onto Morocco’s success ...

January 28, 2011: Larger, and more violent, anti-government demonstrations are showing up in Algeria, in the last two weeks (since the dictatorship in neighboring Tunisia was overthrown). So far, the ...

Algeria’s revolution is in full swing – but an obsession with the historical defeat of French colonisers has put it under threat. It is this nostalgic reliance on militarism, ...

The ongoing Algerian revolution might not fit the dominant imaginary about revolutions, that of mass-scale insurrections led by a vanguard revolutionary party toppling regimes and taking power, ...

World; March 28, 2019; Algeria’s Joyful Revolution Algeria’s Joyful Revolution The most striking feature of today’s uprising is that the gigantic rallies are peaceful and socially mixed ...

Algerian Revolution Echoes in French Violence The recent violence in France has been blamed by some on the legacy of hatred, guilt and denial left by the Algerian revolution.

The Algerian revolution is no different. From the start of this popular dynamic, women have played an important role linking their demands against the patriarchy with the democratic demands of the ...

So the epic standoff in Algeria — Africa’s largest country, the oil-rich neighbor of Libya, strategically situated on the rim of the Mediterranean Sea, gateway to the deep Sahara — continues.

Directed by the Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo, it is what would today be called a mock-documentary, but there is nothing mock about it: "The Battle of Algiers," which fictionally re-creates ...

ALTHOUGH nothing can be completely certain in a problem so complex and emotion-bound as that of the Algerian revolution, it is now at least clear that the statement of President de Gaulle on September ...

F irst Tunisia, then Egypt. Now it could be Algeria’s turn to free itself from autocratic rule. Fearing a full-blown uprising like those that have collapsed both the Tunisian and Egyptian ...