... the French from Algeria. Contemporary relations between Berbers and Arabs are sometimes tense, particularly in Algeria, where Berbers have demonstrated and reveled against Arab discrimination. Since independence, the government has warmly encouraged the formation of an Islamic Arab state. The development of the famous Berber democracy and the way they elected their leaders apply a complicated and sometimes extremely delicate system ... in order to elect its leaders through an elected assembly, and requires them to justify their activities. Traditionally, Berber local government consiste...

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... Agriculture plays a declining but still important role in the Algerian economy, while mineral production accounts for the largest part of the gross domestic product. Since the late 1960s the government has instituted major industrialization programs. The estimated annual national budget in the early 1990s included $14.4 billion in revenues and $14.6 billion in expenditures. Gross domestic product, which ... and introduced many new taxes. This program was approved by Algeria's main source for external financing, the International Monetary Fund. In 1995 the IMF loaned $1.8 billion to Algeri...

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... political and economic structures were geared to serve the interests of the settler community, and whose educational system was designed to submerge the Arab-Islamic identity. Under the Code de l'indigénat, Algerian Muslims were held under extremely repressive procedures that left them with virtually ... they would loose Algeria too. In Indochina French were fighting against communist, whereas in Algeria they were fighting against Muslim who were Arab nationalists. French gave up on Indochina because they could not handle Vietnamese backed up Russian communists. Now contrasting French...

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... and wanting political reform. When the French first colonized Algiers, the French military treated the Muslim Algerians unfairly and harshly. After the French captured Algiers and General Bugeaud established a military government, he treated the native Algerians horribly; his troops would torture them, remove them from their homes, and kill them. The French wanted to "pacify" Algeria of ... violence. They wanted to be politically involved and offered better education, equal taxes, French citizenship, protection of their property, and close supervision of injustices towards Muslim Algeria...

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... religion in Algeria is Sunni Muslim, which accounts to ninety-nine percent of the population followed by Christianity and Jewish at one percent. There are two ethnicity groups in Algeria, Arab-Berber that makes up ninety-nine percent of the population and European accounts for one percent. Arabic is the official language of Algeria, and other languages include French, and ... that included assassinations, Bombings, and massacres. A national state of emergency was called by Bendjedid, who resigned shortly after and appointed five-member High Council of State to run the government. The Hi...

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... defeat the French decided to move out of Indochina. France's oldest colony, Algeria, began revolts and protests to get rid of the French. War with the Algeria Arab rebels was too costly and France's government collapsed. They reinstated former French president Degaul to reassess stability back into the country. Degaul felt Algeria and other colonies were a burden to France's economy and he ... ...

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... religions. In North Africa (Algeria), while the French language became quite widely understood and spoken within the Arab and Berber peoples of the region, these same peoples were able to resist French colonial domination through other cultural and religious means (151). Contrary to the French government's claims, the Muslim majority did not have equal rights. Instead, political and economical power was held ... ...

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... the aftermath of liberated nation-states, the role of women reverts back to that of inequality in social and political standing. In 1944, Huda Shaarawi (#2), Egyptian nationalist activist at the Arab Feminist Conference in Cairo, compares the rights of women to those of men. Marie-Aimée Helie-Lucas (#5), a participant in the Algerian War of Independence (1954 - 1962), wrote that the ... . Her view is substantiated by the similar accounts of the aftermath of other liberated countries. Women who participated in the liberation movement in hopes of attaining equality under the new governmen...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate