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		<title>Satirical Election Candidate National Contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear compatriots, elections are nigh and the new political parties laws are out and it is time those of you who are thinking of presenting themselves in the next elections start thinking about what the hell they should do to win the democratic game. MnarviDZ has been deploring the utter lack of amusement which renders [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivalalgerie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10684783&amp;post=2088&amp;subd=vivalalgerie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Andrey Kurkov</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MnarviDZ</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vivalalgerie.wordpress.com/?p=2061</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First of all I have to apologise for the misleading title. I am not going to talk about Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov nor am I going to review one of his books. I am fascinated by Eastern Europe, I&#8217;ve visited all those countries except the ones that really matter to me (Russia and Ukraine). Instead [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivalalgerie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10684783&amp;post=2061&amp;subd=vivalalgerie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>R.I.P. Cherif Kheddam</title>
		<link>http://vivalalgerie.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/r-i-p-cherif-kheddam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MnarviDZ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Algeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Algerian culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[الجزائر]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Algérie]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a quick post to give tribute to one of the most important Kabyle singers, Cherif Kheddam (a longer biography here in Kabyle), who passed away yesterday at the age of 85. I had shared one of his songs here, and today I am sharing another one where he praises my home town, Bejaia [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivalalgerie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10684783&amp;post=2077&amp;subd=vivalalgerie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tartag vs. Khashkhash</title>
		<link>http://vivalalgerie.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/tartag-vs-khashkhash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MnarviDZ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Algeria]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pouvoir]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vivalalgerie.wordpress.com/?p=1888</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, an Algerian newspaper reported that some Western secret service, which I cannot remember, had posted an ad to hire its new director. I remember I found the news &#8220;funny&#8221; as I thought of Algerian DRS. I mean nobody expects such a move from the DRS especially when you know that no more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivalalgerie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10684783&amp;post=1888&amp;subd=vivalalgerie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Run a Filthy Rich Country</title>
		<link>http://vivalalgerie.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/how-to-run-a-filthy-rich-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>algerianna</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Algeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arab world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satire]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[The content of this post is fictious and any resemblance with anything or anybody is a little bit coincidental.] URBAN MANAGEMENT - The most important thing you have to do as soon as you seize power is to ensure that as many streets and roads as possible are unnamed and all houses and flats are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivalalgerie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10684783&amp;post=2018&amp;subd=vivalalgerie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>[DZBlogDay] Agir pour l&#8217;Algérie</title>
		<link>http://vivalalgerie.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/dzblogday-agir-pour-lalgerie/</link>
		<comments>http://vivalalgerie.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/dzblogday-agir-pour-lalgerie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>algerianna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[I did not know about this, so I didn't prepare anything to post. I found out about it accidentally when I visited the blog of Chatnoir. I am going to cheat a little bit and set the publication date to the 14th of January. Yes, even cheating is permissible when it comes to acting for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivalalgerie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10684783&amp;post=2006&amp;subd=vivalalgerie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Algerian women lost their moment of triumph: Deconstructing war discourse</title>
		<link>http://vivalalgerie.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/how-algerian-women-lost-their-moment-of-triumph/</link>
		<comments>http://vivalalgerie.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/how-algerian-women-lost-their-moment-of-triumph/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>algerianna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 1 This post continues in the same theme of my previous posts here and here, but it is concerned with a section of Algerian society: women. It is about the role Algerian women played in the revolution and the social and cultural tensions which were experienced during the revolution and then after gaining independence. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivalalgerie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10684783&amp;post=1973&amp;subd=vivalalgerie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>50 years after independence: what went wrong?</title>
		<link>http://vivalalgerie.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/what-went-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>algerianna</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[الجزائر]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1954]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1962]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[independence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a follow-up and synthesis of the comments posted in response to my previous post. I quite enjoyed the various comments which were posted and I think that, together, they do depict a multidimensional structure of what &#8216;independence&#8217; means to us as Algerians in light of what happened afterwards. Obviously, every single Algerian will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivalalgerie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10684783&amp;post=1959&amp;subd=vivalalgerie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poll: Algerian protests slogans</title>
		<link>http://vivalalgerie.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/poll-algerian-protests-slogans/</link>
		<comments>http://vivalalgerie.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/poll-algerian-protests-slogans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MnarviDZ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[slogan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[الشعب يريد إسقاط النظام]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[بالروح بالدم نفديك]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vivalalgerie.wordpress.com/?p=1939</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have always considered that Arabs, from Egypt and eastwards, had a sort of gift for slogans. I admit I like watching them in demonstrations supporting the Palestinians and lately in the &#8220;Arab Spring&#8221;. I don&#8217;t know where this gift comes from; I mean the words they choose and the way they chant them create [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivalalgerie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10684783&amp;post=1939&amp;subd=vivalalgerie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The true meaning of &#8216;independence&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://vivalalgerie.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/the-true-meaning-of-independence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>algerianna</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Algérie française]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[french hegemony]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was stuck in traffic the other day and I saw this on the back of a truck: And I thought of the type of questions they used to ask us in high school in philosophy: &#8220;حلل و ناقش&#8220; Many of us have never known the war of independence, but we are constantly being told [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivalalgerie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10684783&amp;post=1928&amp;subd=vivalalgerie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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