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President Tebboune described the Algerian "Hirak" youth uprising as a "Blessing". GCC populations can never protest their rulers. Morocco had a protest in 2018, the leader Zefzafi has a 20 year firm jail sentence. Except for the GCC states, Algeria has a better Human Development Index than any...

Algeria is more stable and united than any Arab regime, trust me. The handful of MAK Kabyle fringe, was originally financed by right wing French who could never accept their loss of Algeria, and now by the Morocco regime. The current FM Lamamra is Kabyle, the last two 1st ministers (Sellal...

In 1945 the Mideast Arabs created the Arab League with a calculated plan to include North Africa as part of the so-called "Arab World from the Gulf to the Atlantic". A colonial plan. Today, the GCC monarchies are using their ally the Moroccan kingdom to divide North Africa.

Islam brought the Arabic language to North Africa, but the number of Arabs who came to North Africa back then was relatively much smaller than the number of native Berbers. In my estimation, there are more Ottoman descendants in Algeria than there are Arabs descendants...

The Islamic conquest brought Islam and the Arabic language to all of North Africa that was already inhabited mainly by Berbers. North Africa has a variety of ethnic constituencies. Mideast Arabs now claiming that North Africa is "Arab" is just a fallacy of history.

Ethnicities that had settled in Algeria prior to the Islamic conquests Numidians (Berbers original inhabitants of Algeria), Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, Vandals, Vikings, Phoenicians Ethnicities that had settled in Algeria after the Islamic conquests Spaniards, Ottomans, French

We also have Hanafi in Algiers because of the Turkish descendants who remained an important part of the community there.

The 4 Sunni madhhabs are Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Hanbali. These schools recognize each other's validity and they have interacted in legal debate over the centuries. - Sufism is a Spiritualism tradition embedded within Sunni Islam. -On the other hand, Shi'a is a Bid3a (Innovation in a...

I live in Colorado and one of my best friends is Numan Dogan (North Carolina). We met while we both were teaching at Washington State U., where Ismail Demir used to be an M.E. student. Numan and I still visit each other with family and talk a lot about MENA politics.