Tag: Algerian War
France in turn appointed its experts
Emmanuel Macron and Abdelmadjid Tebboune had announced it last August: a mixed commission of historians called to work on French colonization and the war in Algeria was about to see…
Algeria is no longer a model for African diplomacy 60 years after its independence
Algeria celebrates on Tuesday the 60th anniversary of its independence, obtained on July 5, 1962 after 132 years of colonization and more than 7 years of war against France and…
60 years after the proclamation of independence, the memory of a euphoric July 5
Algeria celebrates this Tuesday, July 5 the 60th anniversary of its independence. A military parade is planned in the capital, the first for 33 years. While the people of Algiers…
Another story of Algeria with the American writer Alice Kaplan
American writer, academic and historian, Alice Kaplan has worked on memory, autobiography and archives concerning the post-war French literary scene. After being interested in the Algeria of Albert Camus in…
Jeanne Benameur, daughter of the Mediterranean and sister of Isis
Jeanne thinks, even when she dances, she thinks. She has Atlantic thoughts, also turned towards the Aegean Sea. That’s how in his bag, the undertow of a story begun in…
“Baba Merzoug”, the canon of Franco-Algerian discord
In the list of restitutions requested by Algeria from France, 60 years after the end of the war, there is a cannon called “La Consulaire” in France and “Baba Merzoug”…
a commemoration at the Élysée with witnesses of the Algerian war
The 60th anniversary of the Évian agreements was commemorated this Saturday, March 19 in France. A reception was organized at midday at the presidential palace in Paris. Two hundred people…
Dorothée-Myriam Kellou, seated on the blanks of History
To all those who know only the silence of their story, Dorothée-Myriam Kellou dedicates her work as a journalist and independent director. Because when the file of colonial Algeria is…
The origins of Algerian literature: five questions to Hervé Sanson
Hervé Sanson is a specialist in Maghreb literature. It recounts the conditions of emergence of French-speaking Algerian literature in the 1950s as the country plunged into a brutal war of…
In the spotlight: the sixtieth anniversary of the true-false ceasefire in Algeria
It is today, at midday, that at the Elysee Palace, Emmanuel Macron will deliver a speech that The Parisian qualifies all the more as an exercise tightrope walker “that in…