PREFACE Why Algeria?

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Kitap Bölümü

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2017

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Yale University Press

Why Algeria?L Y I N G O N T H E southern shores of the Mediterranean, Algeria is a vast country, the second largest in Africa and indeed the eleventh largest in the world.*Bordered by Morocco to the west, Tunisia and Libya to the east and Mauritania, Mali and Niger to the south, Algeria is a land of dramatic physical extremes where vertiginous gorges and snow-capped mountains compete with tangerine groves, marshy plains and vast tracts of the Sahara desert.It is by any stretch of the imagination a singular landscape, beautiful, beguiling, bewildering, which down the centuries has formed a historical crossroads between Islam and Christianity, Africa and Europe, the First World and the Third.At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the notion that Algeria represents an adjacent 'other' is just as prevalent as it has ever been.Most obviously, this impression is derived from the train of events since 11 September 2001 and all the attendant speculation about the 'clash of civilizations'.Equally, however, it stems from the pressure of economic migration from the poor South, and here one fact is vital: for Algeria's 33.3 million Muslim inhabitants, one of the fastest-growing populations in the world, Europe is just two hours away by plane, and large numbers covet a better life in the rich North.Algeria occupied the world headlines between 1954 and 1962 with the national liberation struggle against French rule.Immortalized in Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 film The Battle of Algiers…

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