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أمير عزيز
Writings
Rewriting Algeria:
Transcultural Kinship & Anti-Colonial Revolution in Kateb Yacine's L'Homme aux sandales de caoutchouc
Art, Creativity & Politics in Africa & the Diaspora, 2018
I examine the theatrical work of the Algerian-Amazigh writer Kateb Yacine (1929-1989), who blends both Algerian and Vietnamese history and fiction to produce a new theatrical form that forges crucial historical links between North Africa and South-East Asia in their shared struggles against French colonialism in the twentieth-century.
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Protesting Politics in Algeria
Middle East Research and Information Project, 2019
I discuss the massive protests that occurred across Algeria in 2019, following decades of economic stagnation, rising unemployment, and corruption. Generations of Algerians mobilized together and drew from Algeria's rich historical tapestry of revolutionary protest to defy a corrupt political elite that has ignored worsening realities in the country.
On Islamophobia, Anti-Terrorism
Securitization, and Secularism
Jadaliyya, 2021
I show how the production of anti-Muslim racism unfolds in a broader context whereby discourses of secularism and national crises are conscripted to exploit public sentiments, expand policing and securitization capabilities, and justify neoliberal breaks in welfare provisions.
The South of Algeria has something to say
Africa Is a Country, 2019
I look at how, while protests in the north of Algeria often grab news headlines, protest and dissent in Algeria's oil-rich Sahara in the south have been going on for decades. Indigenous Saharan communities have been severely impacted by the government's exploitation of natural resources, producing economic rivalries and aggravating sectarian divisions between the various ethnic and religious groups in the Algerian Sahara.
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