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... of the non-aligned movement—Lakhdar was sent to Indonesia by the National Liberation Front of Algeria to open its first office in Asia. Over the years, Lakhdar met and chatted with everyone: from Che to Nyerere to Nasser to Nehru to Sukarno. He served Algeria as ambassador and foreign minister. He was under...

... In the fall of 2000, an 82-year-old French one that took place in Algeria between officer named Paul Aussaresses, who, for 1954 and independence in 1962. French many years, had been living quietly on his military losses were approximately 27,500 pension, sought out members of the French dead, 65,000...

... Imalayen and raised in Algeria when it was a French colony, she is the first member of the Academy from North Africa and for whom Arabic is a mother tongue. Recently, the 75-year-old writer returned to France from America, where she taught French for many years at New York University and Louisiana State...

... in camp administration. Two attended university in Algeria. “We were born here, but we want to go back to our land, and we hope we will spend the rest of our lives in our land. We want a peaceful solution, but if there is not one, we will go back to armed struggle.” The atmosphere at FiSahara...

...Natasha Marie Llorens Throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s, Algeria lived through the Black Decade, a period of extremist religious violence that divided families and left hundreds of thousands dead. French historian Benjamin Stora is one voice among many who argue that this moment...

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... herald a critical juncture in the develop­ secular foundation. Centralization of power ment of social and political movements. and the creation of strong bureaucracies, not Consider, for example, the effort expended to mention the denial of basic democratic by members of Algeria’s Islamic...

... ALGERIA THAILAND PAKISTAN KENYA SOMALIASOUTH KOREAUNITED STATESSAUDI ARABIA 16 Vol. XXXIII, No. 4 Winter 2016 / 2017 © 2016 World Policy Institute DOI: 10.1215/07402775...

..., have some modest gestures toward the intro­ bothered with even the trappings of democ­ duction of democratic institutions, but racy, while a number of those that did so in these have not gone far and have often the past— Lebanon, Algeria, Yemen, Egypt been reversed.3...

... Cold Warriors-turned-Russophobes like care for civilian lives displayed by the French Brzezinski and Kissinger have in any case and American air forces during the wars in rendered their pretensions to anticommunist Indo-China, Korea, and Algeria, the strict morality dubious by the warmth...

... created a French world in Russian minister. The Senate rejected the Indochina and Algeria. The number of Hawaiian reciprocity treaty, the purchase of Americans who settled in the Philippines the Virgin Islands from Denmark, the an­ was negligible. When Britain liberated In­ nexation of Santo...

... adherents advocate jihad against the West. In this Morocco, the World Bank tells us, one of every two people is illiterate, 83 percent of rural women can’t read, and the educational system ranks below that of Yemen. Morocco finds itself behind Algeria, Tunisia, and even Iran in the percentage of its public...

... manufacturers in the South and Northwest. As well as being a tool to bring conquered populations to heel, roads have long been seen as markers of societal development. One of the clearest articulations of this view comes from Marshal Thomas-Robert Bugeaud, who invaded and colonized Algeria in the 19th...

... make Algeria even more enthralling. Cleaver referred to the book as “the Black Bible” and made Algiers the international headquarters of the Black Panther Party. It is this history of cross-border black engagement with the Muslim world that Muslim youth today in Europe are reviving. Given the dominance...

... the right to speak on behalf of whom? . . . And, as thousands of refugees from the Middle East arrive in Europe, what discussions are necessary and which, if any, are off limits?” Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 France Algeria Islam sex women refugees CLAUDE TRUONG-NGOC...

... with the Islamic radicals in government for its “passivity.” neighboring Algeria, they are well organ­ The most vivid demonstration of Mo­ ized and have made gains in recent years, rocco’s wholehearted embrace of democratic particularly among alienated youths. ways is the flowering...

.... This was the right wing of the Front National, the movement Le Pen founded in 1972 as a refuge for those nostalgic for the glories of Nazi-controlled Vichy and right-wing opponents of French withdrawal from Algeria. Le Pen promised a return to some ancestral French values that are almost impossible to articulate...

... strategies, including assassinations and terrorism, against both their own governments and foreign targets. Syria, Egypt, Algeria, and Saudi Arabia provided the earliest examples of these movements, which included al-Qaida, the Armed Islamic Group, and many others. Typically these groups had only a small...

... scientists. Egypt is planning to build reac­ torsand Algeria has just upgraded a very large research reactor in a remote location, sur­ rounding it with air defenses. If we don’t want them to follow in Iran’s footsteps, we’ll have to tackle what we’ve avoided for decades— clarifying which activities...

... to defend my freedom in the face of clichés that I found horrifying. I have also tried to think. To do so in newspaper articles or through literature. Not only because I wanted to succeed, but also because I was terrified of living a life without meaning. During the difficult years in Algeria, journalism...