Algeria

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/17/2022
  

  France's Return of 24 Skulls to Algeria Wasn't What it Seemed

  The French and Algerian governments have both played up the gesture of reconciliation, without acknowledging that the provenance of the remains is dubious (only 6 are documented to be the skulls of Algerian resistance fighters) and they remain French property. 

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• 2/27/2022
  

  Ghosts in the Mirror: France's Crusade Against Former Nazis in the Algerian Insurgency

  by Danny Orbach

  Nazi fugitives and mercenaries took on an outsize significance in the strategic imaginations of both French and West German governments and intelligence agencies in the Cold War; they were most influential not through their actions but through distorting government policy through these delusions of power.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  12/6/2021
  

  What are Frantz Fanon's Lessons for Today?

  by Pankaj Mishra

  Taken at the moment of the Algerian fight for independence and other colonial liberation movements, "The Wretched of the Earth" was first seen as a beacon of liberatory thought. A new edition frames the ambivalences in Fanon's work on freedom.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/16/2021
  

  Macron Commemorates 1961 Killing of Algerian Protesters by Paris Police

  Fabrice Riceputi, a historian of the Algerian War who has written about the killings, described the events of Oct. 17 as “a peak in a period of state terror that is inflicted on the colonized people.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/9/2021
  

  France Eases Access, a Little, to Its Secrets

  Historians of France's colonial war in Algeria have long been frustrated by the government's classification policies on documents related to the conflict. It is unclear how much this change will create transparency.   

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-13-18
  

  France’s Macron admits to military’s systematic use of torture in Algeria war

  France will formally acknowledge the French military’s systemic use of torture in the Algerian War in the 1950s and 1960s, an unprecedented step forward in grappling with its long-suppressed legacy of colonial crimes.

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• SOURCE: The National
  11-24-14
  

  Are there lessons to be learned from Algeria’s past?

  by Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck

  If left to rot, the areas currently under ISIL control will ultimately rebel against their occupiers.

• SOURCE: NYT
  5-29-13
  

  Robert Zaretsky: France, Algeria and the Ties That Bind

  Robert Zaretsky is a professor of French history at the University of Houston Honors College, in Texas....From the moment [Algerian president Abdelaziz] Bouteflika arrived in Paris nearly a month ago after suffering a minor stroke, Algerians have suffered a news blackout. The Algerian government has treated the event rather like its military operation during the hostage crisis at a gas facility in the Sahara earlier this year: with intense secrecy and overwhelming force.Two newspapers were censured last week for reporting that Bouteflika’s health was worsening, while the government, under the eye of the president’s brother Said Bouteflika, insists all is well. Predictably, his blandly reassuring words have persuaded most Algerians that little is well, either with Bouteflika’s condition or Algeria’s future.