The Dead Generations

Anyone who thinks that Sarah Palin's blood libel

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking to Arab leaders in Qatar: “If leaders don’t offer a positive vision and give young people meani...

There was a demonstration scheduled this afternoon for Place du Premiere Mai. Twitter is down, as is Facebook. It’s hard to tell what roll...

This morning, Al Jazeera reports there were again overnight protests throughout the country. The front page of El Watan shows a street clas...

When the French surrendered Algeria in 1962, those who were at all circumspect about the legacy of French colonialism comforted themselves w...

1. Whoever said getting there is half the fun never tried to get to Algeria on a Fulbright. I received the news of my grant back in April; ...

Notes from my daybook, 27 October 2010 Wake Breakfast Coffee, read Work-out Shower Walk neighborhood Work on rough syllabus Write letter to ...

Yesterday, after a brief stop at the embassy to turn over my housing deposit, I went downtown. The geography of Algiers is still somewhat b...

Graffiti on the door to my classroom at Bouzareah: "exterminate all the brutes" Wasn't Conrad more direct?

Goats are scary. Delicious, but terrifying. This, at least, is what I was forced to concede when I stumbled upon one during my afternoon w...

I don't know, but when you wake to Sade on the radio at 4:30 in the morning and head straight for Virginia Woolf before making breakfast...

Until next month, my internet is going to be spotty, but I will do my best to stay in touch and keep everyone updated. Expect a barrage of ...

I started writing this at 5:30 in the morning. I’ve already been up for an hour. I’m running on four hours of uninterrupted sleep, which i...

In his introduction to Jean-Paul Sartre’s essays on colonialism and neocolonialism, Robert J.C. Young situates Sartre within the intellectua...

My apologies for my extended absence: the last weeks have been trying, to say the least. Near the end of August, my usually ironclad stomac...

Bookforum links to my piece from the "Utne Reader," which was reprinted, last month, from the spring issue of "Bidoun." ...

A while ago, I started writing an essay about the film Field of Dreams, predicated upon the notion that one of its signature lines—“If you b...

At the end of my second year of college, I participated in a student-led takeover of our college administration building, in protest of the ...