Algeria الجزائر

There were two interrelated things which drove me to write this book: first, the clear understanding I had in 2012, in the wake of my father’s death, that two colonial projects deracinated me from the world of my ancestors, the Jewish Muslim world, and the Magh..

After several years working and teaching in France, I felt, in the United States, more encouraged to develop an active research agenda focused on North African literature and cinema through a decolonial perspective. While acknowledging the legacies and traumas ..

Within the fields of French history and French colonial history, there has been so much scholarship on colonial Algeria, yet both fields have been largely silent on Algerian women, particularly before the War of Independence (1954-1962).

Early coursework on African-American and Soviet history piqued my interest in “hidden transcripts” and how subaltern populations tell their stories while living under oppression. When I started to delve more into the history of post-independence Algeria, I was ..

Most of the available literature on climate and energy in North Africa and the Arab region is produced by international neoliberal institutions. Their gaze is biased and imbued with orientalist tropes which maintain and reinforce old colonial relations, even wh..

Algeria is a fascinating country, and I believe that it is a very generative case study to think about political developments in the Global South in a critical light, from the selective appropriation of (neo)liberal tools of governance by local elites to the ri..

This is the keynote speech of the Political Economy Summer Institute with Muriam Haleh Davis discussing her new book, Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria (Duke University Press, 2022). She addresses how the framework of racial capitalism might be expanded to ..

Join us for this book talk with Muriam Haleh Davis about her new book, Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria (Duke University Press, 2022). She will address how the framework of racial capitalism might be expanded to reflect on the history of..