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A chicken and egg dilemma… 24 Aug 2013 | 10:35 pm
Indeed it is: which should come first a constitution or elections? Should the writers of the constitutions be elected? Or nominated? Or should they contain an elected component and a nominated one? Wh...
Poll: Military coup or a genuine popular uprising? 20 Aug 2013 | 07:35 pm
The future of Egyptian democracy truly depends on the chances of the truth to surface, in the midst of the current chaos. Personally, I believe that this is a fully orchestrated and illegitimate milit...
Been there, done that… 19 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm
When will it ever end hey? Are we (the Arabo-Muslim nation, if I may still call it so) doomed to military coups and pseudo ‘popular democratic republics’ forever? Why? What is wrong with us? When will...
Algeria, a deserted country 29 Jun 2013 | 08:10 pm
It’s been almost two months now since Bouteflika has left Algeria, two months that the country lives without a president. There are contradictory rumours about his come back before July 5th, Algeria’s...
The Kingdom of Algiers needs a hospital 18 Jun 2013 | 11:03 pm
Algerian president’s health brought us the attention of international media since he left the country to France. Everybody wonders how ill he is and whether he is dead or not. Questions around his suc...
Let us send them to Mars 9 Jun 2013 | 09:48 pm
Algerian Nidhal Guessoum wrote a short piece on Mars and the people who want to go there. He praised the human spirit which, bright and lively as it can be, “pushes us boldly forward for the unknown”....
Book Review: Black Suits You 25 May 2013 | 12:28 pm
My objective behind the Book Reviews section is to write about the books I liked and/or which deal with some “interesting/useful” topic; and so far I’ve been successful in doing so. The previous book ...
An indigenous tribe discovered in Algeria 18 May 2013 | 06:54 pm
It’s been more than a month since my last post here. I confess it’s because of this very last post that I couldn’t publish anything. Every time I thought of a topic I’d realise what I was going to wri...
I will run for president! 14 Apr 2013 | 02:08 pm
You heard it. I bet you are surprised, but you really shouldn’t. We all know that blogging is not the fastest way to get things done, and this despite what people tell you on the so-called Arab Spring...
I don’t know 13 Apr 2013 | 12:30 pm
A few days ago I was watching this disturbing video on the bombing of Al Barra in Syria. There were too many civilian victims. I thought Bashar was a monster. But is he the only monster in the Syrian ...
