The Censored Muslim

Resistance to censorship has been a strong American theme that has prevailed throughout the modern era. Classic American literature and popular film have been produced forewarning audiences of the dangers a “Big government” or “Big Brother” present to the freedom of speech, expression, and the press. Political and ideological adversaries of the West and its…

Mort de la Culture Algérienne

La culture est le manifeste de l'histoire et de la tradition communes d'une population. Il est souvent cité comme la représentation physique la plus extérieure de l'identité, avec la religion et, plus récemment, la nationalité, ce qui a indéniablement une grande importance dans la vie de la plupart des gens. Bien que sa définition puisse…

موت الثقافة الجزائرية

Culture is the manifest of a population’s common history and tradition. It is often cited as the outward-most physical representation of identity, along with religion and more recently nationality, thereby undeniably holds great significance in most people’s lives. As much as its definition might imply unification along the lines of shared experience, cultural prerogative has…

The Distortion of History

There is nothing quite as disheartening as the reduction of certain passages of history in favor for less meaningful, and typically Eurocentric, periods of the past. The manipulation of the past is often a tool used by despots in recent Middle Eastern and Asian history to emphasize their inherent compatibility with Western culture and society.…

A Brief Historical Introduction of the Demise of Islamism in Algeria: Part One

A brief modern history of the Islamic development and destruction of the Algerian state, up until the Civil War period of the 1990s.