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This article describes the treatment of activists protesting in solidarity with the Palestinian cause within the University of California (UC) system, and the tensions that escalated as members of the strike were met by violence and force. This series of events is described by Muriam Haleh Davis..

This book came out of my PhD dissertation, which was focused on late colonial development in Algeria. While the book is a very substantial revision of that project, there were a number of questions that led me to tackle the relationship between economic develop..

On 19 March 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke at a ceremony commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the Evian Accords. This agreement between the French state and the Algerian FLN (National Liberation Front) introduced a cease-fire in the midst of a violent war of liberation (1954-1..

On March 25, 2021, the front page of the Francophone opposition paper in Algeria, El Watan, featured the headline: “Historians demand the opening of the archives.” A large photo of the national archives accompanied excerpts from a letter expressing the dismay of Algerian historians who ..

I primarily wrote this chapter because there is a real lacuna in the field in terms of work that offers an overview of the political economy of the colonial Maghreb, rather than focusing on individual countries. There are good reasons for this—each country has a rath..

One of the iconic moments of the Algerian Hirak occurred on 11 March 2019. The peaceful revolution had begun in February, and President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced he would not be running for a fifth term. A young man who we now know to be Sofiane Bakir Turki responded to a reporter from Sky ..

[This piece is part of a roundtable held in Paris last July at the 4th 

Yesterday was the thirty-third Friday of protests in Algeria, which continued the popular rejection of elections currently scheduled for 12 December. A new slogan also emerged: protestors chanted “Bye Bye Gaïd Salah, this year there will not be a vote,” addressed to the chief of staff of the arm..

As mass demonstrations in Algeria continue, protesters and others have variously mobilized historical memory to articulate their demands as well as their sense of place in the broader trajectory of Algerian politics. To learn more about these dynamics, Jadaliyya turns to Muriam Haleh Da..

Over the last few decades a new term has emerged in France to indicate a form of dangerous leftist politics: (roughly–and awkwardly–translated as “Islamic-Leftism”). The term is not limited to those who identify with Muslim beliefs or practices. Rather, the accusation can be wielded aga..

Writing on the relationship between acts of terror and the mystification of liberalism in 1947, Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote that, “cunning, violence, propaganda, and realpolitik” appeared “in the guise of liberal principles” and were “the ..

Mayanthi L. Fernando, The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.

Naomi Davidson.

Muriam Haleh Davis, editor, The Afterlives of the Algerian Revolution. Special Issue of JadMag (June 2014).

[This article is the second in a three-part Jadaliyya series that looks at Foucault`s work in relationship to the legacy of French colonialism in North Africa. Read the first installment here: "

When Étienne Balibar wrote that “Algeria and France, taken together, do not make two, but something like one and a half,” he was probably offering a political provocation as well as a historiographical injunction.[1] Yet the statement po..