Muriam Haleh Davis is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research interests focus on questions of political economy, racial classification, and postcolonial studies in Algeria. She is the coeditor, with Thomas Serres, of North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance, Institutions, and Culture (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).
Muriam Haleh Davis
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When France Fostered Religious Intolerance
French colonial policies in Algeria created animosity between Jews and Muslims—animosity which the state continues to claim was timeless.
Algiers: Capital of Revolution
In 2018, it is difficult to imagine what it felt like to live through a genuinely revolutionary moment, one that connected hopes for the Third World with dreams …
