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Writing in the Margins: Prize-Winning French Novelist Alice Zeniter on the Legacies of French Colonialism
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Writing in the Margins: Prize-Winning French Novelist Alice Zeniter on the Legacies of French Colonialism

By
Airelle Perrouin
/ 2 April 2021

Alice Zeniter’s excellent novel, The Art of Losing, tells the story of an Algerian Harkis family and the reaching effects of French Colonialism.

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An Algerian Travelogue Offers Important Reflections on Settler Colonial Guilt and Responsibility
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An Algerian Travelogue Offers Important Reflections on Settler Colonial Guilt and Responsibility

By
Rhea Rollmann
/ 11 September 2018

Olivia Burton revisited her family's colonial heritage in Algeria, and the gorgeous comic which resulted offers a reflection on our personal imbrication in the colonialism of our forebears

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The Problems of the Human Conscious in Albert Camus’ ‘Algerian Chronicles’

By
Barry Lenser
/ 4 June 2013
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Bjorn Torske: Kokning

By
Timothy Gabriele
/ 20 April 2011
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Khaled: Liberté

By
Richard Elliott
/ 11 October 2009
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Various: The Rough Guide to Arabic Café

By
Deanne Sole
/ 22 July 2008
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Putumayo: Women of the World

By
Courtney Tenz
/ 17 July 2007

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