L’abstention en Algérie : un autre mode de contestation politique by Louisa Dris-Aït Hamadouche

“…Finally, abstention is the result of a burned-out, deceived, taciturn, suspicious and demanding electorate. In 1990, the Algerian people voted massively against the FLN regime with all it might represent. …”
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À l’épreuve de la « Bastille de Barberousse ». Trajectoire carcérale d’Arezki Kehal et des militants du PPA sous le Front Populaire by Nadia Biskri Berkane

“…Arezki Kehal’s penal trajectory and prison experience in Algeria's civil prison, known as Barberousse, provides a glimpse of the judicial and prison response orchestrated in Algeria under the Front Populaire by the colonial authorities to combat the radical nationalism of the Algerian People's Party (Parti du Peuple Algérien, PPA). …”
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Citizenship of Algerians During the French Colonial Period Between 1865 to 1919 by Badra Gündoğdu

“…Where all these laws were considered unfair to the Algerians (the indigenous population) were at the service of the colonial administration and brought no good to the Algerian people, the owners of the land, who rejected the policies of colonialism, colonization, oppression, and resistance for a free and independent Algeria.This study aims to show that the French colonial administration made promises to Algerians by granting them French citizenship and granting them civil and political rights, but these promises were always conditional on a set of conditions accompanying Muslim Algerians leaving their Islam. …”
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Mémoires et patrimonialisation d’un passé antéislamique : Mubârak al-Mîlî et l’ethnogenèse du peuple algérien by Aomar Hannouz

“…The European narrative of ethnogenesis provided a model for conceptualization of the Algerian people’s collective memory. Our contribution is an attempt to analyse this ethnic engineering, and so to examine the modes by which this ethnic group was reactivated to culturally express an ethnic group and “imagined community”, which was itself dominated socially and politically.…”
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