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Picturing Algeria
Pierre Bourdieu, Picturing Algeria. Edited by Franz Schultheis and Christine Frisinghelli. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. [This review was originally published in the most recent issue of Arab Studies Journal. For more information on the issue, or to subscribe to ASJ, click here.] In a poignant interview included in Picturing Algeria, Pierre Bourdieu notes that “Yvette Delsaut wrote a text about me in which she very rightly says that Algeria is what allowed me ...
Keep Reading »Algeria Between “la Boulitique” and la Politique: A Tale of Two Youths
![[An image from the Mouloudia Club d’Alger versus Union Sportive Médina d'Alger match. Image taken from oumma.com.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2013-05-05at4.15.28PM.png "[An image from the Mouloudia Club d’Alger versus Union Sportive Médina d'Alger match. Image taken from oumma.com.]")
La politique est une réflexion sur la manière de servir le peuple. La «boulitique» est une somme de hurlements et de gesticulations pour se servir du peuple. La politique is a reflection on the manner to serve the people. La boulitique is an accumulation of screams and gestures (invoked) in order to use the people. - Malek Benabi Rarely is the noise in Algiers as deafening, or the traffic as disorderly. If young Algerians are often depicted as hittistes, hanging out ...
Keep Reading »Memory Wars and the Messiness of History: An Interview with Jim House on the Commemoration of 17 October 1961
![[Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, left, greets French Interior Minister Manuel Valls before a meeting in Algiers, Sunday, 14 October 2012. Photo by Sidali Djarboub via AP.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2012-12-18at9.56.35AM.png "[Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, left, greets French Interior Minister Manuel Valls before a meeting in Algiers, Sunday, 14 October 2012. Photo by Sidali Djarboub via AP.]")
[Dr. James (Jim) House is a Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Leeds. His research interests have focused on the history and memory of the Algerian War of Independence along with antiracism in France. His monograph, "Paris 1961: Algerians, State Terror, and Memory," which he co-authored with Neil MacMaster, looks at the events the 17 October Massacre in the context of colonial violence and social memory. Dr. House's current research focuses on ...
Keep Reading »الحدود والرؤوس المومئة: مرحلة ما بعد الاستعمار والذكرى الخمسون لاستقلال الجزائر
![[ AP Photo/Sidali Djarboub ]](/content_images/3/sm_algeriaAP.jpg "[ AP Photo/Sidali Djarboub ]")
قد يقول البعض إن الجزائر تعد بامتياز نموذجاً لمرحلة ما بعد الاستعمار. لقد أعطت حرب الاستقلال طويلة الأمد والتي أصبحت نموذجاً لصراع العالم الثالث، والحزب الوطني الذي كان فرانتز فانون متحدثه الرسمي، دفعة لكلمة algérianité (الوطنية الجزائرية)، والتي كانت كلمة طنانة في كل البحوث التي تناولت مرحلة ما بعد الاستعمار. إضافة لهذا، فإن جبهة التحرير الوطني، والتي أعلنت نفسها الحزب الوحيد حتى 1989، لم تفز بالحرب ضد الفرنسيين فقط (وضد خصوم جزائريين) أثناء الثورة وحسب، ولكنها بقيت في ...
Keep Reading »When the Lights Go Out: A Discussion with David Theo Goldberg
![[David Theo Goldberg. Image via the author.]](/content_images/3/sm_DTG.jpg "[David Theo Goldberg. Image via the author.]")
David Theo Goldberg is the Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, and one of the world’s leading figures in Critical Race Theory. Ten years ago he started SECT (the summer Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory). From 29 July - 9 August, the eighth session of SECT was held in Beirut, Lebanon on the theme of “Spaces of Resistance.” What follows is a conversation I conducted with David Theo ...
Keep Reading »Borders and Bobbing Heads: Postcoloniality and Algeria's Fiftieth Anniversary of Independence
![[The ticket for the celebrations at the 5th July Stadium which bears the official logo for the 50th anniversary seen all around Algiers. Image by author.]](/content_images/3/sm_Fullscreencapture772012112813AM.bmp.jpg "[The ticket for the celebrations at the 5th July Stadium which bears the official logo for the 50th anniversary seen all around Algiers. Image by author.]")
Algeria, one might say, is a site of postcoloniality par excellence. A protracted war of independence that was the model for third-world struggle and a nationalist party that had Frantz Fanon as an official spokesman gave rise to a word, algérianité, that has become a buzz-word of postcolonial studies. Moreover, the FLN (Front de Libération Nationale), which declared itself the sole party until 1989, not only won the war against the French (and other rival Algerian ...
Keep Reading »The Invention of the Savage: Colonial Exhibitions and the Staging of the Arab Spring
Watching a popular uprising in real time was indeed a dramatic experience. As viewers tuned in (or streamed in) to the violence, courage, and uncertainty of events in North Africa this year, many of them had the impression of witnessing the “actual” events, free from the framing tactics and analytical bias often found on the six o’clock news. A host of new media celebrities became household names as they reported live from Tahrir, and news outlets such as Al-Jazeera saw an ...
Keep Reading »Knowledge and Power in Algeria: An Interview with Daho Djerbal on the Twentieth Anniversary of NAQD
![[Poster for NAQD. Image via the author.]](/content_images/3/sm_naqd.jpg "[Poster for NAQD. Image via the author.]")
It is still very possible to work on Algeria without ever passing through the Contrôle Passeport in Algiers. For a host of reasons—archival, bureaucratic, historical and, perhaps, psychological—Algeria remains on the margins of its own historiography. Arriving in September, I expected to get many questions from scholars who have worked here in the past, pertaining to the current conditions of research, the upcoming legislative elections, and the finally-completed metro ...
Keep Reading »The Nature of Oil: Reconsidering American Power in the Middle East
![[Image via the author.]](/content_images/3/sm_oil_davis.jpg "[Image via the author.]")
Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil. New York: Verso, 2011. Toby Craig Jones, Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010. Robert Vitalis, American Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2006. For most of those who consider themselves politically liberal, oil—along with environmental degradation and foreign occupation—form a kind of ...
Keep Reading »Algeria and the Arab Spring: A View from the Forest
![[Residents of Bois des Pins have demonstrated against the construction of a commercial parking lot and the destruction of forest lands in Hydra, a suburb of Algiers. Image Source: djazairess.com]](/content_images/3/sm_334917.jpg "[Residents of Bois des Pins have demonstrated against the construction of a commercial parking lot and the destruction of forest lands in Hydra, a suburb of Algiers. Image Source: djazairess.com]")
Algeria has been back in the “Arab Spring” headlines this month, though for more ambiguous reasons than the lifting of the state of emergency in February. Since the fall of Qaddafi, Algeria’s role has been cast as a bastion of the military elite, on the one hand, and a quiet supporter of Qaddafi’s regime, on the other. The suspicion that Algeria may be “Immune to the Arab Spring” is related to the lack of “Tahrir-style” mass protests, its willingness to offer ...
Keep Reading »Bio
Muriam Haleh Davis is a graduate student in the Department of History at New York University. Her research interests focus on race and decolonization in Algeria.
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