Near the end of The Battle of Algiers, the 1966 film directed by Italian leftist Gillo Pontecorvo, crowds waving flags and chanting slogans surge into the streets of the Algerian capital. The scene is ...
While writing my first book, Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics During the Decolonization of Algeria (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), and watching the frightening events of ...
Starting from a small kiosk of old postcards as a derisory memorial of Algerian history the visual artist questions the role of images or the absence of images in the representation of the colonial ...