Hadj-Moussa 29750.e Kabyle crisis began in April 2001 following public celebrations of the Th
“Berber Spring” of 1980, when the Berber Cultural Movement first came
to public attention and was brutally repressed by the police. A gendarme
killed a young college student, which provoked a long confrontation
between the political regime and the population of Kabylia.
51.ee Jacky Dahomay, “Identité culturelle et identité politique: Le cas antil- S
lais,” in Comprendre les identités culturelles, edited by Will Kymlicka and
Sylvie Mesure (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2000), 103.
52.Le Pen et l’Algérie,” editorial, “ Le Monde Interactif, 4 June 2002, http://www.
lemonde.fr.
53.rence Beaugé, “Quatre nouveau témoins accusent Jean-Marie Le Pen Flo
de torture,”Le Monde Interactif, 4 June 2002, http://www.lemonde.fr. See also
Gilbert Grandguillaume, “Être algérien chez soi et hors de soi,” Intersignes
10 (1995): 79–88.
54.t is in such terms that one of the participants relates her experience of I
French television: “I like French newscasts because they refer to us. When
my brother is watching the newscasts, I ask him to call me if they are talk-
ing about Algeria. But we know that when something is happening in
Algeria, ‘they’ always open with it. We are being sabotaged [by French tele-
vision].” (Abla, 38 years old)
- Beaugé, “Quatre temoins.”
56.osoux Valérie, R Poids et usages du passé dans les relations franco-algériennes
(L’Annuaire français des relations internationales II, 2001), 451–465.
57.en A fl is an Algerian term referring to a person with power and ranking
over others.
58.li Kafi was the president of the powerful National Organization of A
Mujahidin [fighters]. Following the assassination of President Boudiaf in
June 1992, he became the President of the High State Commission.
59.n 1999, 80 percent of households with television sets had access to satel- I
lite transmissions, the highest degree of saturation in North Africa and the
Middle East. In Western Europe the rate is 48.5 percent. See Naomi Sakr,
Satellite Realms: Transnational Television, Globalization and the Middle East
(London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2001), 114.
60.sef Bayat, “Activism and Social Development in the Middle East,” A
International Journal of Middle East Studies 34 (2002): 1–28.