60 Years After Independence: What Has Algeria Become?

CMES and CMES Tunisia are pleased to present

60 Years After Independence: What Has Algeria Become?

Hugh Roberts, Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History, Tufts University

Slim Othmani, President of CARE Algeria; President of MEF Tunisia

Zahia Smail Salhi, Professor of Modern Arabic Studies, University of Manchester

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As Algeria celebrates 60 years of independence on 5^th July, this webinar panel explores the key political, social, economic, and demographic changes that have transformed the largest country in Africa and the Arab world over the past six decades. What are the birthmarks that have been retained since independence? What has fundamentally changed in the Mediterranean Middle Power? With the impacts of literacy attainment, female labor force participation and (r)urbanization to hydrocarbon reliance, and the 90s civil war, we ask what has Algeria become? What are the nation’s key achievements, failures, and missed opportunities? And what does its past tell us about its future?

Moderator:
Adel Hamaizia, Visiting Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

Co-sponsor: CMES Tunisia
Contact: Liz Flanagan