... that Franco-Algerian as well as Maghreb-Mashreq relations are intricately connected to the question of Palestine, raising the question of the limits and potential of transcolonial politics. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 Staging Palestine in France-­Algeria Popular Theater and the Politics...

... think before me, before the Tunisian revolution, rap was ignored here. People are paying attention now. It’s really popular, it’s the new thing. But it’s always been there in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria. — El Général Despite its relative novelty as a form of artistic expression...

... colonization (1882–1903), which had been patterned after the ethnic plantation colony model of French Algeria, in favor of a “pure settlement colony.” Influenced by theorists such as Russian-born Marxist Dov Ber Borochov, Labor Zionists would initiate a series of development projects, some of which still exist...

...” on 20 September 1956, appeared next to front-page coverage of events including the Suez crisis, the onset of hostilities in Algeria, and the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.3 Months earlier, at an event at the Salle Wagram about the situation in Algeria, Césaire himself had...

... of the Third World — in this case, Algeria, Brazil, and the Philippines.5 Given the relative obscurity of Sison, I will foreground his ideas in relation to Fanon and Freire’s, examining in particular the thematic similarities in their thoughts rather than...

... by invoking another North African case, this one from Fetj-M’Zala, Algeria. There, according to Ho, the escape of a prisoner who had been arrested for theft and who continued to elude colonial police forces was followed by the summary detention...

... youth. They also gained a higher stature within Algerian neighborhoods by becoming, with nascent Berber cultural asso- ciations, one of the prime means by which news from Algeria was circu- lated to and from France. The number of young men and women who...

... to resist gender apartheid and sexual terrorism in the diverse war sites where they continually reappear: Bosnia, Chechnya, Rwanda, Algeria, Nigeria, and Palestine. Activist groups like Women against Fundamentalism, Women Living under Muslim...

... riches like Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States. Although there were some important exceptions—for example, Ireland, Cuba, Algeria, Palestine, and South Africa (after 1910)—even in these cases, city dwellers were rarely more than one-sixth of the population. Nor were colonial cities...

..., Jewishly garbed image from Der Ewige Jude demonstrates, or as Frantz Fanon also showed in regards to French perceptions of Arab women resistance fighters in his essay “Algeria Unveiled,” dogma-­line racism sometimes may even traffic...

... to whatever compromise seems appropriate in light of a general situation, of which they alone have the right to take stock. (Here it is clear that I am alluding to the French Communist Party’s vote on Algeria, by which it granted the Guy Mollet-Lacoste government full powers to carry out its...

... who was forced into exile in Algeria: It’s really a very cruel thing; his child now is almost two, and he’s only seen her when she was very small, when she was just born. This is the beginning of the many broken...

... relations to advance their work. See Khalili, Time in the Shadows. As for older empires, for the French military’s dependence on ethno­ graphic knowledge in Algeria, see, especially, Alf Andrew Heggoy, Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Algeria (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1972...

... during Mandela’s clandestine circuit of African states, including Algeria, in 1961. 59 The exchange between Toure and Mandela’s political rivals, the Pan-Africanist Congress, was nevertheless sufficiently robust for its exiled secretary, Potlako Leballo, to send a message of solidarity to Toure...

... exception”: Sartre’s failure to take the same courageous position on Palestine as he had on Algeria and Vietnam. Even at the meeting in Paris, Said says, “Sartre’s presence, what there was of it, was strangely passive, unimpressive, affectless. He said absolutely nothing for hours on end...

... and that they will be betrayed by concessions to the enemy. Like the colons of Algeria, the loyalist vigi- lantes in Ulster, or the armed zealots in the occupied territories, Afrikaner paramilitaries targeted not only blacks, but above all their own volksvereir (traitors). Illegal armed challengers test the state’s...

... as diverse as Algeria, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Indone- sia, to name just a few. My argument assumes historical specificity; it assumes that to understand what is going on in Iran today, we need to look at the specific contingent configurations of the politics of modernity...

... “resistance literature.” Har- low suggests that resistance literature is directly tied to armed insurgent political movements that have an organizational structure, such as the PLO or the ANC or the FLN in Algeria. Despite the often loose use...

... of the intimately interdependent relationship of colonized and colonizer, and its transformation in the context of liberation struggles, but also clearly could not have been written except in conversation with the anticolonial movement of Algeria — and it left...

..., they deal a blow to Ashanti culture. When the French refuse to recognize Arabic in Algeria or Malagasy in Madagascar as official languages, thus preventing them from achieving their full potential in the modern world, they deal a blow to Arab culture and Madagascan culture. Given...