" On ne peut étudier les peuples barbares que les armes à la main"   L'originalité de Tocqueville est d'avoir saisi, plus rapidement que beaucoup de ses pairs sans doute, les spécificités de la guerre d'Algérie, car il sait les vertus de la comparaison. Instruit par les officiers qu'il y a rencontrés lors de son séjour, informé des procédés employés aux Etats-Unis notamment, il comprend que l'art militaire valable pour les conflits qui se déroulent sur le Vieux Continent est inadéquat dans la colonie. "Il n'a pas de pays au monde qui ressemble moins à l'Europe que l'Algérie, écrit-il.…

  A mi-chemin d'Istamboul, la princesse Nour Houda apprit à la grande princesse mère Zuleikha son intention de les devancer en montant sur son cheval qui suivait le convoi depuis AinZibad et se faire accompagner par un de leurs gardes du corps pour atteindre au plus vite la Corne d'Or au palais de Bahatshe. Mécontente, la grande princesse fit appeler son frère  cadet qui se trouvait dans une voiture en…

Algeria’s economy is growing far too slowly to provide enough jobs for a young, expanding, and increasingly restless population. The country's authorities need to boost competition, spur the creation of a digital economy, and revamp state-owned enterprises. Algeria faces the herculean task of transforming its economy to meet the pressing demands of a young, growing, and increasingly restless population. Despite the country’s favorable demographics, its economy remains almost entirely dependent on oil and natural gas, which account for 95% of merchandise exports. To provide enough jobs for the millions about to enter the labor market, Algeria’s economy needs to grow by more…

NTRODUCTION Anne Brontëserves a twofold purpose in the study of what the Brontës wrote and were.  In the first place, her gentle and delicate presence, her sad, short story, her hard life and early death, enter deeply into the poetry and tragedy that have always been entwined with the memory of the Brontës, as women and as writers; in the second, the books and poems that she wrote serve as matter of comparison by which to test the greatness of her two sisters.  She is the measure of their genius—like them, yet not with them. Many years after Anne’s death…

Donald Trump spoke over the weekend to the Israeli American Council’s national summit, where the president did something oddly familiar: he once again used anti-Semitic tropes to a Jewish audience. From the official White House transcript: “A lot of you are in the real estate business because I know you very well. You’re brutal killers. (Laughter.) Not nice people at all. But you have to vote for me; you have no choice. You’re not going to vote for Pocahontas, I can tell you that. (Laughter and applause.) You’re not going to vote for the wealth tax. “ ‘Yeah, let’s take 100 percent…