Algeria

The ideas of “feminism” and “being a feminist” have morphed and changed throughout the years. In Talking Back, published in 1989, bell hooks discusses her experience as a black feminist woman. While ideally there should be no negative connotation to this identity, I have been noticing recently that “feminist” has become almost a dirty word among certain people. The other day, I overheard a conversation at lunch about how a large presence of feminists and their opinions had “ruined” a classroom…

Taking for example education, it is obvious in this contemporary time to witness the impact of modern colonialism in educational institutions. Algeria for example; the official language in their higher education is French, that is because of the French colonization (1830–1962). Even though the colonization has ended, but the impact of it is clearly seen, and believed as the higher standard of the…

The Barbary War began in 1801, and it lasted until 1805. The war was between the newly formed United States of America, and Tripoli. Tripoli was made up of four Barbary states, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya. It began during Thomas Jefferson’s first year as president, American ships were being taken by the pirates and held for ransom, along with their crew. The pirates had been taking merchant ships and their crews, and holding them for ransom for nearly 400 years. Jefferson said that he…

The author of The Stranger, Albert Camus, was born in 1913 in Mondavi, French Algeria. His father died early in his life, so he lived with his half-deaf mother. He married two women when he was young, but divorced them both shortly after. He did very well in school and continued on into university. He also completed some military service and had a short political career as well. As far as his literary work goes, Camus wrote novels, plays, and even performed with the theater. He was awarded…

Morocco seems to draw the portrait of its relations with the European Union and Sub-Saharan African countries including the African Union over the Western Sahara issue. Accordingly, the Moroccanism component of the postcolonial Moroccan national identity is preferred to Europeanism and Africanism when it comes to the Western Sahara issue. But a more important point is that Moroccanism was a strong component not only for Western Sahara but even after the postcolonial period. In an article,…

For decades, scores of African individuals and their families have made the conscious decision –motivated either by cultural ties, economics, war, the environment, or political unrest – to undertake the transnational journey of relocation to France. Such a monumental, intercontinental journey carries with it significant socio-political implications for immigrants, especially with regards to families. For many Africans, France, a nation with strong historical and colonial ties to the continent of…

In the twenty-first century, as a result of globalization, major Western European countries have faced serious issues on immigration. Since the World Wars, European nations have sought solutions for labor shortage and low birth rates from immigrants. However, despite the growing influx of immigrants, the lack of governments’ flexibility with immigration policies has resulted in the polarization of the public’s sentiments on immigrants. The recent incidents of Charlie Hebdo and Kosher…

from 1336 to 1360. They still haven’t clarified the death of Mansa Musa, but they have narrowed it down to 1332 as said before in the article, but they say there’s chance he may have been alive in 1337 because they say he sent a representative to Algeria to congratulate the conquerors on their…

landings of the allies and the naval battles and bombardment of the ports. Patton took command once the troops are ashore. The goal of the operation as described by Eisenhower “The object of the operations as a whole is to occupy French Morocco and Algeria with a view to the earliest possible subsequent occupation of Tunisia.” (Atkinson 22) The invasion consisted of two main…

Capital punishment in Bangladesh is a legal form of punishment for anyone over the age of 16, but in practice is not applied to those under 18.The death penalty may be used as a punishment for crimes such as murder, sedition offenses related to possession of or trafficking in drugs, offenses related to trafficking in human beings, treason, military crimes, rape, hijacking planes, sabotage, or terrorism. It is carried out by hanging and firing squad, although the latter method has…