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(and still is). Satellite television did not require viewers to be literate. This
explains the success of satellite television as a popular medium.
21.everine Labat, “Islamismes et islamistes en Algérie: Un nouveau militan- S
tisme,” in Exils et Royaumes: Les appartenances au monde arabo-musulman
aujourd’hui, edited by Gilles Kepel (Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 1994), 66.
22.Housing project” has no pejorative connotation in Algeria. Big housing “
projects were one of the solutions implemented to solve the chronic hous-
ing crisis.
23.e possessive pronoun is often used to mark a distance between the Th
speaker and armed groups, the Islamists and/or the state.
24.e expression is part of the title of a book on Algeria by Reporters sans Th
Frontières: Le drame algérien: Un peuple en ottage (Paris: La Découverte, 1995).
25.Wooden tongue,” a French expression meaning “rigid talk,” here used in a “
political setting.
26.(Télévision Française 1) and Antenne 2 are national (public) French TF1
television stations. Canal Plus is a private French television station. MBC
(Middle East Broadcasting Center) is an Arabic-language satellite television
network.
27.is a new neighborhood in an area with a number of villages in close prox- X
imity to urban development. This neighborhood in a little town on the out-
skirts of Algiers was well known as existing practically out of the control
of state authorities because armed groups (associated with FIS members)
ruled. These armed groups prohibited satellite dishes and forced adolescent
women to wear the hijab, under the threat of executing their fathers.
28.ierre Bourdieu and A. Sayad, P Le déracinement: La crise de l’agriculture tra-
ditionnelle en Algérie (Paris: Le Seuil, 1964). See also Mohamed Kerrou and
Mostafa Kharoufi, “Maghreb: familles, valeurs et changements sociaux,”
Monde Arabe Maghreb-Machrek 144 (1994): 26–39.
29.uoted in Mustafa Emirbayer and Mimi Sheller, “Publics in History,” Q
Theory and Society 28 (1999): 145–197 (186).
30.amel Kateb, K La fin du mariage traditionnel en Algérie? (1876–1998) Une
exigence d’égalité des sexes (Paris: Bouchène, 2001), 89.
31.ee Bourdieu and Sayad, S Le déracinement; and Kerrou and Kharoufi,
“Maghreb.”
32.ee, for example, Rabia Bekkar, “Écoute et regard: La télévision et les trans- S
formations spatiales en Algérie,” Miroirs maghrébins: Itinéraires de soi et