In 1830, France forcibly and violently colonized Algeria, keeping it as a territory until 1962, when the North African nation gained its independence following one of the longest and most intense ...

Near the end of The Battle of Algiers, the 1966 film directed by Italian leftist Gillo Pontecorvo, crowds waving flags and chanting slogans surge into the streets of the Algerian capital. The scene is ...

Sixty years after its independence, Algeria stands at a crossroads. Though it has broken the political chains of colonialism, it remains shackled by invisible bonds: mental alienation, disastrous ...

Journal of Social History, Vol. 53, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: TRADE UNION NETWORKS AND THE POLITICS OF EXPERTISE IN AN AGE OF AFRO-ASIAN SOLIDARITY (Winter 2019), pp. 454-486 (33 pages) During the late ...

Starting from a small kiosk of old postcards as a derisory memorial of Algerian history the visual artist questions the role of images or the absence of images in the representation of the colonial ...

Before independence, both Algeria and Senegal traded mainly with their coloniser, France. In the fifteen years after independence, the share of Algeria’s exports that went to France collapsed, whereas ...