Algeria

Frantz Fanon sitting at a table during a press conference

New book explores the life of psychiatrist and writer Frantz Fanon

Since the latter half of the 20th century, the influence of Frantz Fanon has been felt in fields as distinct as psychiatry and postcolonial studies. A new book explores the "revolutionary lives" of the psychiatrist, writer and anti-colonial rebel, whose understanding of identity evolved through his travel and experiences, including confronting colonial hierarchies as a person of color in postwar France, and eventually joining the Algerian War of Independence. Host Marco Werman learned more from Adam Shatz, author of "The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon."

New book explores the life of psychiatrist and writer Frantz Fanon
A film screening at the FiSahara 2022 film festival

Film festival at refugee camp near Western Sahara amplifies voices of displaced people

Film festival at refugee camp near Western Sahara amplifies voices of displaced people
The Krechba gas plant in Algeria's Sahara Desert, about 720 miles south of the capital, Algiers, Dec. 14, 2008.

Spain and Algeria at odds over Western Sahara, energy and migration

Spain and Algeria at odds over Western Sahara, energy and migration
US Air Force airmen guide evacuees aboard a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan

G-7 agrees on conditions to recognize and work with the Taliban

G-7 agrees on conditions to recognize and work with the Taliban
A group of men are shown carrying a casket on their shoulders drapped with a blanket.

ISIS claims killing of 3 women media workers in Afghanistan

ISIS claims killing of 3 women media workers in Afghanistan
French President Emmanuel Macron is shown standing next to French historian Benjamin Stora, both men wearing dark jackets and Macron holding a white paper.

Macron reveals more torture by French army in Algeria war

President Emmanuel Macron has met with four grandchildren of an Algerian independence fighter to tell them that Ali Boumendjel had been tortured and killed by French soldiers in 1957.

Macron reveals more torture by French army in Algeria war
A man wearing a blue shirt leans his body over a coffin draped with the Algerian flag in a room full of coffins.

French report reignites debate about colonialism in Algeria

Like the US, France is navigating political disagreements about its history and their relationship to modern issues of race.

French report reignites debate about colonialism in Algeria
Sudanese protesters chant slogans during a rally calling for the former ruling party to be dissolved and for ex-officials to be put on trial in Khartoum, Sudan, Oct. 21, 2019.

Protests that rocked The World in 2019

Gas. Bread. A subway ticket: The soaring cost of everyday necessities sparked protests that spiraled into major movements in countries like France, Zimbabwe, Lebanon, Sudan and Chile. Throughout the world, citizens took to the streets in 2019 to rise up against inequality, corruption and bad governance. 

Protests that rocked The World in 2019
Flags of many countries carried by protesters fill the frame.

Power outage: How did global leadership change in 2019?

US President Donald Trump faces a Senate trial over whether to remove him from office in January. But impeachment is not the only way to remove a leader. Here's a look at political shake-ups around the world, where both legal and extralegal means to bring about regime change have made headlines.

Power outage: How did global leadership change in 2019?
Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest to reject the presidential election in Algiers, Algeria, Dec. 12, 2019.

Algerians protesting elections want real reform, not a military junta, analyst says

Algeria hosted an election Dec. 12, but many were in opposition to the vote. That's because protesters see the election as a civilian facade for a military junta, says Zine Labidine Ghebouli, a scholar at the American University of Beirut.

Algerians protesting elections want real reform, not a military junta, analyst says
Seven men in different military uniforms walk next to military vehicles.

How Twitter and other social media can draw the US into foreign interventions

What's a protester's best tool? It might just be Twitter. New research suggests that social media sites like Twitter may be one of the game changing factors in protesters winning support from abroad and creating US policy change.

How Twitter and other social media can draw the US into foreign interventions
celebration in algeria

Algeria's president resigns amid protests

The ailing leader is stepping down after a 20-year rule.

Algeria's president resigns amid protests
A protester holds up a sign in Arabic writing.

Young Algerians have only known one president. Many are hopeful that will soon change.

Hundreds of thousands of Algerians have been protesting against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s bid for a fifth term.

Young Algerians have only known one president. Many are hopeful that will soon change.
Many young men holding Algerian flags scale a monument of a woman holding a torch, attached to which is a flag

Algeria’s ailing president was once a revolutionary. After mass protests, he won’t seek a fifth term.

A champion of post-colonial countries and controversial figure, an ailing Abdelaziz Bouteflika has stepped away from a bid for a fifth term as Algeria's head of state.

Algeria’s ailing president was once a revolutionary. After mass protests, he won’t seek a fifth term.
french soccer players at the world cup

French national soccer players of immigrant ancestry face harsher critics at the World Cup

The synergy that has propelled the French national team to the title game in the most recent World Cup in Russia has been colorblind — but French citizens and fans have not.

French national soccer players of immigrant ancestry face harsher critics at the World Cup