Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers: Past as Prologue

168 Pages·2016·1.02 MB·English

by  Sohail Daulatzai

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Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers
Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers
Past as Prologue
Sohail Daulatzai
University of Minnesota Press
Minneapolis
Portions of “Third World Dreams,” “Fanon as Prophet, Algeria as Revolutionary Mecca,” and “The Camera
as Gun” were published in Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom
beyond America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012).
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