Mothers’ and Daughters’ Memories: The Palimpsest and Women’s Writing during the Algerian Civil War by Christina Brennan

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Écrire chez Leïla Marouane : une réappropriation littéraire de l’Histoire by Hanna Ayadi

“…How does Leïla Marouane deal with the expectation of the reader in these years of Algerian civil war ? How to move from the « I » who lived to the « other » who reads and who receives ? …”
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From an Understanding to a Securitizing Discourse: The British Left’s Encounter with the Emergence of Political Islam, 1978–2001 by Ihab Shabana

“…Thus, this article gives an historical outline of the intellectual production and the strategies of interpretation adopted by the British Left during the period of 1978–2001, by exploring the main historical events that involved (political) Islam, such as The Iranian Revolution, the Lebanese civil war, the Palestinian Intifada and The Algerian Civil War. The main argument postulated is that interpretation trajectories by the British Left were highly dependent on ideological and geostrategic lineages and respective synchronic political alliances, resulting in putting the centre of gravity sometimes on Islamic activism’s regressive nature and sometimes on its anti-imperialist perspectives.…”
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Islamic Reform Movements after the Arab Spring by Jay Willoughby

“…He pointed out how different groups (e.g., those groups responsible for assassinating Sadat, the Algerian civil war, and 9/11) took Ibn Taymiyyah’s anti-Mongol fatwas out of context to justify their actions. …”
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