• Maher Mezahi

This week, Kamel Daoud became the first Algerian to receive France’s most prestigious literary honor. Yet, in Algeria, no one seems to care.

• William Shoki

This month, Algeria quietly held its second election since Abdelaziz Bouteflika was ousted in 2019. On the podcast, we ask what Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s second term means for the country.

• Maher Mezahi

Removed from the facts, the firestorm around Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is the latest attempt by the right-wing in the West to find fodder for its culture war.

• Zahra Rahmouni

In North Africa, religion is being used to spread political and cultural influence.

• Hamza Hamouchene

Choosing to focus on denouncing Palestinian violence is akin to asking them to passively accept their fate—to die quietly and not resist.

• Sarah K. Miles

In its first few years, the magazine 'Révolution Africaine' opened possibilities for Franco-Algerian cooperation. It was then co-opted by the state.

• Anwār Omeish

Fanon Studies has stubbornly failed to consider how Algeria may illuminate Frantz Fanon’s theoretical commitments.

• Ramy Allahoum

Sahrawis are robbed of their agency by a zero sum game for influence between two regional rivals Morocco and Algeria.

• Mahdi Blaine

Although he was a spokesperson for the Algerian National Liberation Front, Frantz Fanon’s ideas often came at odds with that movement’s political demands.

• Mathijs Cazemier

It will have to be the Algerian diaspora inside France who will eventually have to mainstream the truth of France's colonial legacy.

• William Shoki

This week on AIAC Talk, we speak with Leswin Laubscher and Derek Hook about the phenomenology of Franz Fanon and the ways he is understood throughout different eras of time.

• Ali Amouzai
• Sylvia Kay
• Hamza Hamouchene

COVID-19 exposed and exacerbated inequality and insecurity in North Africa's food systems. But the roots of the current crisis can be found in the legacy of colonialism and new forms of imperialism.

• Michael de Vulpillieres

One of the evolving themes about Algeria's Hirak movement is how it reinvigorated protest among Algeria's diaspora, including in the U.S.

• Ignacio Villalón

The historically fraught relationship of metropole and colony persists between France and Algeria, as a recent “symbolic” gesture reveals.

• Sophie Toupin

Today's social movements rely on tech collectives to organize safely. But few know the history of other technologies used by earlier liberation movements.

• Hamza Hamouchene
• Selma Oumari

COVID-19 has been a blessing to the ruling classes in Algeria. However, the popular Hirak movement has not said its last word yet.

• Hamza Hamouchene

Any talk about green transition and sustainability must not become a façade for neocolonial schemes of plunder and domination.

• Ahmed Mitiche

Protestors in Algeria, the US, and elsewhere must begin to imagine what a new, grassroots Third-Worldism of the 21st century may look like.

• Youcef Oussama Bounab

In the 1960s, Algiers was a beacon for worldwide liberation movements. What happened to its rebellious spirit?

• Brahim Roubah

November 1, 2019, is the 65th anniversary of the War of Liberation against French colonialism. The ongoing protests in Algeria is expected to enter a new phase: civil resistance.