Fifty Years After Breakup, France and Algeria Must Reconcile

By: Karim Amellal posted on Monday, Sep 24, 2012, published by Al Monitor As Algeria celebrates (quite silently) the 50th anniversary of its independence this year, for a few this event continues to be seen in France as a reminder of a defeat, even an amputation, while for others, hopefully many more nowadays, it sounds as the end of a…

First Post-Arab Spring Poll in Algeria: Why the People Remains on the Edge?

By Karim Amellal, French-Algerian author, lecturer at Sciences Po (Paris) and Founder of Stand Alone Media Algerians are going to vote to elect a new parliament in the first poll since the so-called Arab Spring. But after decades of rigged elections and broken promises of democratization, most of voters remain sceptical and will stay away…