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Algeria: vivid memories

May 1962 in Algiers, despite the Evian Accords, the OAS continues its scorched earth policy.

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By: Valerie Nivelon

1 min

If the time for reconciliation does not seem to have arrived yet, the word is free on both sides of the Mediterranean to give us to hear all the wars in Algeria... Those of French soldiers, FLN fighters, Harkis or returnees because all French and Algerian families have been affected.

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Sound and music archives, reports and testimonies in the ears of our guests Philippe Mesnard, Catherine Brun and Abderahmen Moumem from the Revue Mémoires en Jeu.

To read :

  • Revue Memoirs in game special War of Independence 60 years later

  • The paradoxes of memory, 

    by Philippe Mesnard, published by Le bord de l'eau

  • Colonial Algeria: Traces, memories, transmissions

    , will be published on March 17, 2022 in France, by Cavalier Bleu editions, directed by Giulia Fabbiano and Abderahman Moumen, in the MiMed Migrations Mediterra collection

  • Benjamin Stora's Report on Colonization and the Algerian War.

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