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Four Arab Artists and Intellectuals Receive 2012 Prince Claus Fund Award
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[The following press release was issued by the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development on 6 September 2012.] The Prince Claus Awards The Prince Claus Awards honour outstanding achievements in the field of culture and development. The awards are presented annually to eleven individuals or organisations whose cultural actions have a positive impact on the development of their societies. In keeping with the Prince Claus Fund’s guiding principle that culture is a basic need, the awards highlight significant achievements in areas where resources and opportunities for cultural expression, creative production and research are limited and ...
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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 nationalists) during the revolution but remains in power after the May 2012 legislative elections. Indeed, the current political climate remains closely linked to the war of independence. In a speech made the ...
Keep Reading »Pouvoir and Agency
![[A poster of Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algiers, Algeria. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_800px-A.Bouteflika.jpg "[A poster of Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algiers, Algeria. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]")
Reuters published an article on 20 June (‘Algeria’s elite at loggerheads over next president‘), describing fissures within Algeria’s elite and how these are believed to be influencing the (non-) selection of a successor to elderly and ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The article is quite good. Up front, the fact that Boutelfika, who is over 70-years-old, has not designated a successor and that this is being done by clans and camps speaks to the often mentions similarities between Bouteflika’s style of rule and that of Houari Boumediene, who ruled the country from 1965-1978, when he died of an obscure blood disease (Boutelfika was a key player as ...
Keep Reading »الأميرة النائمة: الوردة الكبيرة 1939-2012
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العناوين الكثيرة يمكن أن نضعها لآلاف من صفحات الكتابة، ورقية وضوئية، وتخطيطات كتاب وارد، عن الوردة "أميرة الغناء العربي" (1939-2012). لقب صنعته الصحافة بعد فيلمها الثاني"أميرة العرب"(1963). كأن نقول "الأميرة والمنفى"، "الأميرة والنضال"، "الأميرة والعسكر"، "الأميرة والحب"، "الأميرة والأيام"، "الأميرة والغربة"، الأميرة والوطن". إنها هي فصول سيرة الوردة الكبيرة. نامت الوردة النوم الطويل. تجمد الزمن غدت الذاكرة محملة بالعبير الفواح والربيع المنتظر. فصول الوردة لم تكن ربيعاً، فهي أكملت دورات فصول السنة جزءاً من قدرية السيرة وارتياد المستحيل. نازلت كل فصولها واضعة في كل منها بصمة الصوت ...
Keep Reading »Algerian Elections - 10 May
![[Graphic of the #10MaiToz hashtag used by Algerians on Twitter. Image from Twitter]](/content_images/3/sm_10MaiToz.jpg "[Graphic of the #10MaiToz hashtag used by Algerians on Twitter. Image from Twitter]")
While Algeria may not have seen protests on the scale of its regional neighbors, many Algerians are expressing their political dissent through abstention. On Twitter, the hashtag #10MaiToz was used to post various updates pertaining to police crackdowns on minor protests and voter fraud, with reports of registration under the names of dead people used to vote. Jadaliyya Maghreb Page co-editor, Robert Parks, in his piece "Arab Uprisings and the Algerian Elections: Ghosts from the Past?" analyzed the possibilities of the Algerian elections by examining recent history and the ongoing events in the Maghreb. The following are selected tweets and images ...
Keep Reading »The Malian Crisis Seen from Algeria
![[Tuareg soldiers holding the flag of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA). Image by Jemal Oumar/Magharebia.]](/content_images/3/sm_120403Feature2Photo1.jpg "[Tuareg soldiers holding the flag of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA). Image by Jemal Oumar/Magharebia.]")
The military blitz by rebels in Northern Mali is far from inconsequential for its Algerian neighbor. The hypothetical secession of the Azawad (in the northern half of Mali) is not viewed favorably in Algeria, to say the least. In addition to the threat of instability across the country's southern border, the Mouvement National de Libération de l’Azawad (MNLA) made the pragmatic choice to form a short-lived alliance with jihadists from Ansaar Eddine and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) during their offensive. Due to Algeria’s own recent history with terrorism, this relationship was viewed with great suspicion. The success of the Tuareg rebels and their allies ...
Keep Reading »Notes from Western Sahara: An Interview with Fatma El-Mehdi
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As the Arab Spring spread across several countries in the Middle East and North Africa, American philosopher Noam Chomsky argued that it did not originate in Tunisia, as is commonly understood. “In fact, the current wave of protests actually began last November in Western Sahara, which is under Moroccan rule, after a brutal invasion and occupation,” Chomsky stated. “The Moroccan forces came in, carried out - destroyed tent cities, a lot of killed and wounded and so on. And then it spread.” The Gdeim Izik protests started in October 2010 when approximately five thousand Saharawi citizens set up temporary “Camps of Justice” to protest the Moroccan occupation and ...
Keep Reading »Call for Papers: 1962, A World (Oran, Algeria, 14-16 October 2012)
![Three revolutionairy women, each named Dalila, in The Battle of Algiers: the war film classic directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. [Image from Cine Papaya.]](/content_images/3/sm_WomenintheBattleofAlgiers488.jpg "Three revolutionairy women, each named Dalila, in The Battle of Algiers: the war film classic directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. [Image from Cine Papaya.]")
Call for Papers: 1962, A World
Oran, Algeria
14–16 October 2012
Proposal Deadline: 15 April 2012
The symbolic and exemplary resonance of Algeria’s independence escapes the limits of either Algerian or French history. The interdisciplinary colloquium “1962, A World”
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Knowledge and Power in Algeria: An Interview with Daho Djerbal on the Twentieth Anniversary of NAQD
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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 (thirty years in the making). Instead, the one question I was most consistently asked by friends and colleagues was: Do you know Daho Djerbal? Unlike the scholars who are hesitant to come (some of them ...
Keep Reading »The Shibboleths within Albert Memmi's Universalism
Albert Memmi, Decolonization and the Decolonized. Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. “What? Post-colonialism? Have they left?” - Aborigine activist Bobbi Sykes’ comment at an academic conference on post-colonialism[1] Is there a place for “Muslim” or “Arab” peoples in “Western” “universal” values of equality, freedom, democracy, rights, and so forth? Both categories frequently subsume religious and/or ethnicized (mis)conceptualizations in current Western discourse. Every day in the news, there is at least one item that reveals (again) the hypocritical duality that bifurcates “West” from Other. The duality undergirds debates and ...
Keep Reading »Call for Submissions: Youth, Media and the Politics of Change in North Africa
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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Special Issue Call for Papers Youth, Media and the Politics of Change in North Africa: Negotiating Identities, Spaces and Power Guest Editor: Loubna H. Skalli (American University, Washington D.C.) This special issue of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication solicits theoretical and empirical papers on “Youth, Media and the Politics of Change in North Africa: Negotiating Identities, Spaces and Power.” The purpose of this special issue is to document ways in which the Maghreb countries of North Africa (Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya) provide vibrant and complex settings for studying the ...
Keep Reading »Djamila Bouhired: A Profile From the Archives
[”A Profile from the Archives“ is a new series published by Jadaliyya in both Arabic and English in cooperation with the Lebanese newspaper, Assafir. These profiles will feature iconic figures who left indelible marks in the politics and culture of the Middle East and North Africa.] Name: Djamila Known as: Bouhired Date of birth: 1935 Spouse: Jacques Vergès Date of marriage: 1965 Children: Maryam/Lias Nationality: Algeria Category: Political activist Djamila Bouhired - ...
Keep Reading »Euphémiser la domination, ce qu'une première page nous apprend sur le régime algérien
L'ignorer est une gageure : le 5 juillet dernier, l'Algérie a fêté le cinquantième anniversaire de son accession à l'indépendance. La place qu'occupe cette guerre dans la mythologie nationale comme dans l'histoire politique récente est écrasante. Cela ne veut pas dire pour autant que le régime algérien a cessé de chercher à se réinventer. La crise de légitimité qui l'a touché depuis le début des années 1980 -liée à ses échecs économiques et politiques- l'a contraint à chercher d'autres moyens de se ...
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Après 50 ans d’indépendance en Algérie, l’heure est au bilan. Celui-ci se révèle lourd et amer sur plusieurs plans : politiquement, la dictature est à peine dissimulée par une timide ouverture du système, économiquement, l’exploitation tous azimuts des hydrocarbures a empêché le développement effectif des autres secteurs (agroalimentaire par exemple), et le pays semble foncer tête baissée vers une boulimie importatrice qui ne sera pas soutenable à long terme, socialement enfin, la société algérienne est ...
Keep Reading »The Guardian's Martin Chulov Discusses Reporting on Syria
With Syria grabbing all the news attention, and journalists being virtually barred from entering the country, how can we decipher fact from propaganda? There is no shortage of information and analysis about what is unfolding in Syria. With foreign journalists shut out, much of the news comes from citizen journalists' accounts, YouTube videos sent to media channels or websites in addition to various official narratives from governments across the world, in favor or against the Syrian regime. According ...
Keep Reading »Algeria's 10 May 2012 Elections: Preliminary Analysis
The results of the 10 May 2012 Algerian legislative elections ran against conventional wisdom, and at least two points will certainly provoke much commentary. First, despite widespread disgruntlement, Algerian voter turnout proved to be significantly higher than predicted by most observers. 42.91 percent of registered Algerians participated – seven percent more than in 2007. Second, and possibly with region-wide ramifications, Algerian voters bucked a major trend of the so-called "Arab Spring": ...
Keep Reading »Another Take on 'The Malian Crisis as Seen from Algeria'
"The Malian crisis seen from Algeria," by Thomas Serres (19 April 2012) presents an analysis of Algerian perceptions of the upheaval in northern Mali. This analysis is insufficient in explaining Algerian behavior in response to the rebellion in northern Mali or to the March coup d’etat and misidentifies Algerian priorities in relation to the "Sahelo-Saharan Space" and Algeria’s relationships with extra-regional actors in the west. Additionally, its underlying ...
Keep Reading »Arab Uprisings and the Algerian Elections: Ghosts from the Past?
In December 2010 and January 2011, Algerians and Tunisians took to the streets. While in Tunisia hundreds of thousands of citizens stood up to bully dictator Zine al-Abdine Ben Ali, to the West, cities across Algeria erupted into widespread rioting. Though the 29 December to 10 January riots were of an intensity not seen since the October 1988 uprising that put an end to the former single-party system of the National Liberation Front (FLN), they dissipated as suddenly as they began, with no ...
Keep Reading »Le printemps arabe : et si l’Algérie avait raison ?
L’Algérie avait-elle raison ? Le régime algérien aime désormais le répéter partout : le printemps arabe est une illusion. Il est mauvais pour la santé des peuples, la stabilité du Sud, la lutte anti-terroriste. Voyez la Tunisie ! Voyez l’Egypte ! Voyez la Libye. Cela ne sert à rien de se révolter contre le Père de la nation pour se soumettre, à la fin, à l’Imam de la nation, susurre la voix douce des dernières dictatures. « Des amis hôteliers m’appellent de la Tunisie pour ...
Keep Reading »The International Symposium on the Arab Spring Through the Eyes of Arab Novelists: Testimonies and Readings
In the grim depths of winter, the Arabic novel keeps the sun of the Tunisian Revolution shining. Although the sun of the Tunisian Revolution and the Arab Spring is still playing hide and seek, it is imperative that artists, writers, and poets find a venue to discuss the cultural and artistic sides of the revolution. On 18 and 19 January 2012, an international symposium on the “Arab Spring Through the Eyes of Arab Novelists” took center stage at the Ibn Rachiq Culture House in Tunis. The symposium ...
Keep Reading »Contre-révolution en Algérie, enseignements pour l'Egypte
Alors que la répression des révolutionnaires égyptiens a pris ces derniers temps une forme de plus en plus ostensible et brutale, il devient urgent de chercher à comprendre ce qui fait la force de la Contre-révolution en cours. Bien sûr, chaque contexte est différent et il est souvent vain de chercher à superposer deux expériences. Pour autant, on trouvera dans les expériences passées quelques enseignements qui ne seront pas inutiles pour mieux comprendre les voies de la Contre-révolution. L’échec du ...
Keep Reading »Algeria and the Arab Spring: A View from the Forest
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 refuge to members of the Qaddafi ...
Keep Reading »Youth, Media and the Art of Protest in North Africa
“Everyone has his own way of fighting, and my weapon is art!” says Milad Faraway, a 20 year-old Libyan who created the rap group Music Masters with another young friend in 2010. Their song “Youth of the Revolution” urges “Moammar [to] get out” and end the violation of Libyans’ rights. “Qadhafi, open your eyes wide” sings another rap group Revolution Beat: “you will see that the Libyan people just broke through the fear barrier.” In neighboring Tunisia, twenty-one year old Hamada Ben Amor, known as El ...
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