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A Protest Made in Algeria

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Since February 22, thousands and then millions of Algerians have taken to the streets every Friday to protest against the fifth term of their ailing eighty-two-year-old president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

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On February 24, I went back to my country, Algeria, to try to understand Algerians’ expectations for the upcoming presidential elections. From the northern capital, Algiers, to the southern city of Tamanrasset, this movement has impressed the world with its scale and nature. Algerians have kept their movement leaderless and their protests silmiya, or peaceful, and hadhariya, civil. But the movement has caught the regime off guard.

I marched with protesters with the eyes of a political analyst but with the heart of my identity: an Algerian citizen. I took these photos in Algiers during the March 22 and March 29 demonstrations...

 

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A Protest Made in Algeria

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Ifri's Turkey/Middle East Program aims to provide expertise on the trends and developments in politics, societies and economies across the region.

The programme has the following objectives:

  • Proposing a new approach towards the MENA region through an analysis of local, regional, and international dynamics with the potential to guide and influence new policies.
  • Highlighting the role of foreign powers which have traditionally been present in the region and analyzing the new role taken on by emerging countries ;
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The programme has built a dense network of researchers and experts who provide expertise on the MENA region and working together on a range of crosscutting themes.

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