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On a warm afternoon last March, Mina, a 24-year-old Algerian-American (who preferred not to give her last name), arrived at Washington, DC’s Dupont Circle proudly wearing a jacket with the word Algeria emblazoned on the front and back. In a small corner of the park laden with dozens of ..

We are pleased to share this annual review of our Essential Readings (ER) series. Individual ERs serve as teaching and research resources a specific geographic, temporal, and/or thematic subject by providing annotated lists of key works on the subject. Be..

This collection of texts in English, Arabic and French is a first attempt to gather secondary sources discussing the revolutionary mobilization that started in Algeria in February 2019. Since then, the four-term President Bouteflika has been forced to resign and the longstanding Chief of Staff o..

A collective of Algerian intellectuals and activists, joined by writers, magistrates and artists from all over the world, denounces a "repressive policy" towards a peaceful and responsible movement.

Un collectif d’intellectuels et militants algériens, rejoint par des écrivains, magistrats, artistes du monde entier, dénonce une « politique répressive » envers un mouvement pacifique et responsable.

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 ..

“If I do not come back, do not forget to give her medicine by break of fast,” Walid Kechida, twenty-five, told a friend who stayed with his widowed mother while he went to a nearby police station in Setif, some 270 kilometers east of Algiers, one night in Ramadan. Kechida had already been summon..

22 February 2020 marked the one-year anniversary of the Hirak in Algeria. Over the past twelve months, the massive popular movement in Algeria has demonstrated a remarkable resolve in the face of various attempts to break its momentum. Despite significant blows, the ruling coalition—oft..

For many weeks, if not some months, now the situation in Algeria has been widely described as an impasse. At the same time, the equally widespread habit of describing the protest movement there as a revolutionary one has encouraged the expectation that the impasse is more likely to be resolved i..

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..

In recent weeks, the bureaucratic-military apparatus that still controls the Algerian state has intensified its efforts to finish off the Hirak. Since mid-June, the Chief of Staff of the Army, Ahmed Gaïd Salah, and his accomplices have tried to make the people fall in line. They have ma..

Ces dernières semaines, les organes bureaucratico-militaires qui contrôlent toujours l'État algérien ont intensifié leurs efforts afin de mettre un terme au Hirak. Depuis la mi-juin, le 

It has been a long summer in Algeria. The revolutionary movement, which began in February, has continued despite predictions that the month of Ramadan, and the summer vacation, would weaken popular mobilization. Moreover, state repression has been on the rise.

The wave of social unrest that shook Morocco between 2016 and 2018 marked a major turning point in the country’s political and economic landscape. Spontaneous protest movements (soon termed Hirak, in Arabic) located in the semi-peripheral towns of Al Hoceima and Jerada highlighted deteriorating ..

On 22 February 2019, Algerians took to the streets in protest of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s attempt to run for a fifth mandate. This movement, which has taken on the title “Hirak” (movement) shares a number of features with its Moroccan counterpart of the same name. Following, we have prov..

Following this year’s “Throne Day” speech on 29 July 2017, commentators were unanimous: Morocco’s King Mohammed VI’s offensive against political parties was more violent than ever. In Morocco, however, the “crisis,” “weakness,” and “dysfunction” of parties is a repeated refrain. After the ..

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The conflict in Yemen seems set to intensify as 2016 draws to a close. The deposed president

[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week..

[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week..

[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week..

[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week..

[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week..