Issue 21
Algeria, the Second Revolution
Featuring a dossier on the Algerian Hirak movement: the peaceful uprising that filled the streets of Algiers, and the poets, painters and historians who carry its memory.
In this issue
Articles marked in green form our special dossier on the Algerian Hirak movement.
1
Fortress Europe
Asian Dub Foundation’s anthem against border regimes, set against Seher Shah’s aerial landscape drawings — a call to keep banging on the walls.
3 min read
2
Wake Up!
A searing poem by Owo Jones on poverty, love, and collective awakening, with illustration by Biagio Mastroianni.
4 min read
3
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Reconfiguring the Revolution
Amel Ouaissa on year two of the Algerian revolution: how the Hirak movement reimagined politics beyond the ballot box.
8 min read
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Vagabond Chronicles
Rym Khene’s bilingual poem and photographs dream forty million vagabond chronicles through the streets of Algiers.
5 min read
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THE ALGIERS DOSSIER
Algeria, the Second Revolution
Amin Khan’s landmark essay on the Hirak: sixty years after independence, a society reclaims its revolution. Trans. Amel Ouaissa & Julien Columeau.
9 min read
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Algeria's Forgotten Revolutionary History
Youcef Oussama Bounab recovers the internationalist history that made Algiers the capital of world revolution.
9 min read
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Les Femmes d'Alger
An interview with painter Asad Faulwell on ‘Women in Algiers’ — honouring the women fighters of the Algerian war of independence.
8 min read
8
Tech-Gleba Without Alternatives
The future is magic… a graphic novel by Biagio Mastroianni, inspired by essayist Paolo Barnard — on technology, serfdom and the absence of alternatives.
6 min read
9
A Confrontation in the Piazza
A short story by Francesco Cincotta, with his photographs — words explode like fireworks in a crowd without a centre.
10 min read
10
Taxman
A short story by Ryan Spring Dooley, with the author’s illustrations — the tale a man tells the taxman.
7 min read