While atlases reify the notion that every land mass but Antarctica is defined by statist boundaries and state control, Alexander Reid Rossā interesting recent anthology, Grabbing Back exposes this illusion.
The official announcement on February 22nd that Abdelaziz Bouteflika will now run for a fourth term as Algerian president in the April 17th election has sent one more shock wave through the society
Quite tragically, Egypt now seems to be following the same bloody path as Algeria in the 1990s. As I forewarned in an…
July 5, 2012 will mark Algeria’s 50th anniversary of national independence from 132 years of the French colonial regime. At the heavy…
On the verge of celebrating 50 years of national independence in July, Algeria’s military-dominated regime faces in May a potentially humiliating and…
While Tunisia had its first post-“revolution” election on October 23rd and Egypt will follow on November 28th, an infamous, but relevant, date…
“Leaderless revolutions,” as seen currently in North Africa, pose important challenges to outside media and to foreigners, generally, seeking authoritative voices to…
Strange as it seems, Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and most of his high-level entourage these days must focus attention (and hopes) on…
In Algeria, as elsewhere throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds, Israel’s brutal war on Gaza clarified once again the great distance between…
In spectacular fashion, the latest suicide attacks in Algiers confirm that nothing basic has changed in the political dynamics of Algeria. The…
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