A panel and roundtable with Daho Djerbal (University of Algiers), Mohamed Amer Meziane (Religion), Mamadou Diouf (MESAAS), Mahmood Mamdani (Anthropology, Political Science), and Madeleine Dobie (French).
To the extent that they identify Africa to subsaharan Africa and the Arab world to the Middle East, predominant global geographies tend to marginalize North Africa. This workshop is part of a larger project which aims at questioning the geographic divides of Africa and the Middle East. The ‘‘North Africa in Africa’’ project questions the marginalization of North Africa in Western-centered global geographies. This specific workshop is focused on the Algerian case. It will address the following question: if one takes into account the centrality of both the colonization and the decolonization of Algeria in the colonization and the decolonization of Africa and the Third World, how might the postcolonial predicament of the African continent and the Third World be re-conceptualized? How are we to think about what is happening today in this country as something else than a simple extension of the ‘‘Arab Spring’’?

Section I: Critical Perspectives, (2:10 - 4:30 PM)
Daho Djerbal (University of Algiers)
Mohamed Amer Meziane (Religion)
Mamadou Diouf (MESAAS)
Mahmood Mamdani (Anthropology and Political Science)

Section II: The Algerian Uprising Today (4:45 - 6 PM)
Roundtable moderated by Madeleine Dobie (French)

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This event is organized by the Institute for Religion,Culture and Public Life and cosponsored by the Middle East Institute.