History of Algeria

In the Sundanese Latuka tribe in Africa, when a man wants to marry a woman of his choice, he will kidnap her. The elders of that tribe ask the girl’s father for her hand in marriage. If the parent’s of the spouse say no, the man can forcefully marry the woman anyway if he chooses. In America, a man will propose to his woman of choice. Before the proposal, the couple will usually spend a lot of time together and get to know each other. If she says yes to the proposal, they will get married…

civilization from their countries. Although these two men had the same goal in mind, the methods through which they hoped to achieve these goals were drastically different. In Africa, Franz Fanon was calling for a violent removal of the French from Algeria through his book The Wretched of the Earth. In Asia, M.K. Gandhi was writing his pleas to the Indian people to push the British out of India through far less violent means. If these two men are fighting for the same cause, how is it that…

Choice and Accountability Essay In the short story “The Guest” by Albert Camus it shows how everyone has to make choices and decisions, and these choices will affect the person later on. Balducci a father figure to Daru comes to his house and brings an Arab man giving Daru the orders from the French to deliver the Arab to Tinguit to the police headquarters because he has committed a crime. Daru chooses that he personally does not want to be the one to bring the Arab man to his fat. However, Daru…

Stranger is set in colonial Algeria in the 1940’s. At the time Algeria is under French rule. The country’s inhabitants are French Indigenous Algerians, Arabs, and the Pieds-Noirs. The Pied-Noir like the protagonist, Meursault, is a Frenchman born and raised in Algeria. Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation is set in post colonial Algeria. The setting of the two books is pivotal in understanding the underlying theme of racism and sexism towards the Arabs. During colonial Algeria the French people…

When looking at something that is very large, such as the universe, a militaristic entity, or a massive political conflict, it can be hard to make any sense out of the sheer multitude of sensory experiences. Looking at something small, in contrast, is simple and easy to understand. Therefore, a useful way in understanding the whole would be to look at individual parts, and eventually the sum of the parts will lead to a conception of the entire entity. Richard Feynman’s The Character of Physical…

known as Imazighen which means ”free men” are indigenous group from Northwest Africa where they are mostly concentrated in Morocco and Algeria but smaller communities are spread out in to the east and south. Berbers have lived in Africa since the earliest recorded time. They take up about forty percent of Moroccan population and around thirty percent live in Algeria. Berbers mainly live in desert regions like the Sahara and in the Atlas Mountains. The reason the live in such areas is because in…

In the present-day nation of Mali, Timbuktu is located at the southern edge of the Sahara Desert and six miles north of the Niger River. It is significant because it was the commercial, religious, and cultural center of the West African empires of Mali and Songhai in the 14th century. At an early period, Timbuktu played an essential role in the spread of Islam in Africa. Timbuktu’s location made it an important market place for negotiating and trading manuscripts. The north side of Timbuktu…

kidnappings and hostage taking to make demands that support their goals. Most recent attacks have been in response to French activity in Mali. In January 2014, the AMB took control of a British Petroleum gas plant near Amenas, Algeria. The AMB attacked the plant in retaliation against Algeria for allowing France to utilize their air space, launching air strikes into northern Mali. The AMB took 800 hostages, using them to demand the release of French captured Islamist fighters in Mali, as well as…

For my self-assessment project over the book “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr, I have created a newspaper titled “The Saint-Malo Monthly”. This title incorporates Saint-Malo, the setting of most of the book. This newspaper is set in August of 1944, which is when the war was at its climax and the major events of the story took place. My first news article is titled “The Mystery of the Sea of Flames”. It is about the legend, looks, and location of the Sea of Flames, a diamond…

(FLN) launched attacks in various parts of Algeria against military installations – police posts, warehouses, communication facilities, and public utilities (On War: 1). The National Liberation Front was a socialist political party in Algeria set up to obtain independence for Algeria from France. They began a guerrilla war against France and sought diplomatic recognition at the UN to establish a sovereign Algerian state (Encyclopedia Britannica). In Algeria it was often considered a…