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"It is outrageous that, to this day, Algeria does not have a council of experts, appointed for their international scientific expertise, at a high level within the State, to assess any projects related to archaeological research, monument conservation-restoration, or museum management."
"This is not an amphitheater; it's a theater. Your question comes a bit too late, as a concrete theater has recently been completed in a completely unsuitable location, which detracts from the integrity and aesthetics of the site. I fail to see the purpose of holding this festival in Timgad, as it has no connection to the historical significance of Thamugadi."
"I started with the Chevallier Group as a saleswoman in La Plaine and Pringy, then became a manager, working alongside a partner, at Petit-Port. When my daughter was born 23 years ago time. I decided to take on a role with more regular hours. After covering a few shifts in different stores, I joined the Poisy team as First Saleswoman."
"I assist and fill in for the manager whenever possible."
"Manufacturing, cooking, selling, and preparing products."
"It all depends on the new employee... maybe patience is key."
"I don't have a preference between manufacturing, sales, or preparations."
"The freezer in winter, the oven in summer, but above all, it's pancake season."
"I have an old dog, I'm part of the committee for an association, and I enjoy watching TV series and taking naps."
"I did 2 years of apprenticeship as a Cook and 2 years of apprenticeship as a Pastry Chef."
"Marieme Helie Lucas respond to the question "How was the FIS in Algeria able to hijack the youth revolt and gain so much popularity in their conflict with the authoritarian Algerian government"?"
"The Left appears to be hindered by Eurocentrism, focusing more on their own struggles with government policies towards migrant minorities in Europe. They applied their analysis of this situation to events in our countries, neglecting the vital resistance forces against the Muslim Far Right. In prioritizing victims of the state, they created a hierarchy of victims, overlooking those targeted by non-state actors. By failing to address the crimes committed by Muslim fundamentalist non-state groups against women, they also established a hierarchy of rights, where women's rights are placed last, after religious, cultural, and minority rights."
"Secularism is the legal and administrative principle that separates the state from organized religions. It was established during the French Revolution and later formalized in the 1905-1906 laws on separation. Article 1 of these laws guarantees individuals the freedom to believe and practice their faith. Article 2 states that the Secular Republic neither recognizes, engages with, nor funds religions, their representatives, or institutions. In a secular Republic, all citizens are equal and have the same rights under the law."
"Reactionary forces have always sought to govern in the name of God. Secularism, defined as the separation of religion and state, is the most effective way to prevent them from directly wielding political power. Historically, progressive religious interpreters and liberation theologians have been marginalized and defeated within their own religious traditions."
"I realized failing is still better than doing nothing to regain one’s rights and human dignity."
"“You are probably right, but if we try and fail, we can at least tell our daughters we tried but could not change the conditions, now it is your turn to try. But if we do nothing and just watch the rights that our mothers and grandmothers fought to secure for us wash away at the whims of fundamentalist and corrupt politicians, what do we have to tell them?”"
"Describes sexual liberation as ‘served on a plate’"
"It prompts me to reflect on what defines a human being and how we safeguard the essential humanity within each of us. A democratic nation is constantly at risk of reverting to torture, as it represents a source of unchecked and limitless power."
"I focus on academic work during the day, but at night, I seek something different. The classics aim to capture something universal while addressing the specific and local. They connect with themes that transcend boundaries."
"It is crucial to provide opportunities for talented individuals who cannot afford the $40,000 annual cost of a college education. A college education enhances critical thinking, encourages questioning, and fosters the ability to look beyond surface-level information. This opportunity should be accessible to as many people as possible."
"writing about Algeria is an endless discovery of a history I was never taught."
"I preferred studying alone. I always prepared study plans for exams and studying alone helped me to respect this agenda."
"The first and also the last time when I saw these lifts was at the University of Miskolc: the elevators without doors which never stop."
"I felt myself at home, as there are a lot of nice places to visit and honestly, the calmness of the city helped a lot during the exams"
"We want to understand these processes, and ultimately we want to control them to achieve desired outcomes."
"I and my research group measure manifestations of quantum mechanics — using ultrafast lasers at the femtosecond and attosecond timescale to test fundamentals of quantum mechanics."
"Our research has a broad impact on chemistry, biology, material science, and environmental science."
"It’s important to mentor the next generation of women physicists and increase significantly their number."
"we work to strengthen vaccine capacities, by developing new formulations and optimizing production methods to make vaccines more accessible and affordable."
"The private sector may also be reluctant to invest in research into diseases that mainly affect poor countries, as the return on investment is perceived as low due to these countries’ low purchasing power. In addition, the financial risks are high."
"it is important to understand the many obstacles that research institutes face in financing their vaccine research, particularly in developing countries."
"The research and development of new vaccines is an expensive and risky process. They require heavy investment of time and resources, with no guarantee of success."
"He had a very long life, more than a hundred years, and the memory he left in the north of the massif is a measure of this longevity."
"I think he wasn't unique and that over the years, we'll find lots of Baptistes in various regions of the country."
"This local social history remains to be done, and that's kind of the point of this book."
"Baptiste introduced milling to the Aurès, he built mills, he discovered an archaeological cave that bears his name."
"His memory survives in the north of the massif but hardly any further."
"I worked for twenty years in this region, mainly in the south, without ever hearing a local mountaineer spontaneously talk to me about him."
"Those who knew him, in the north, are now between 70 and 80 years old, so I was ultimately lucky and also helped by young colleagues to find their traces."
"I am not talking here about the researchers, to the extreme modesty, the simplicity of the character, his self-effacing end."
"There is also talk of his son, Chérif, of whom we do not know for sure whether his mother is Chaouia or Italian."
"His mother was indeed Chaouia but he does not have the same aura because his life was rather deviant with regard to local values (woman-lover and probably not very sober, unlike his father)."
"He lived there for 70 years and people speak of him with amused indulgence, which says a lot about the tolerance of a society that is considered closed and rigid."
"The Aurès is not at all what one imagines from the outside!"
"They must have met in the mountains by chance perhaps, the first time, both searching for treasure, a sport common in the massif, for which one needs strong legs, imagination and physical courage."
"Twenty years of age separated them and neither seems to have found any treasure."
"I think it was a beautiful and unexpected meeting, between two men fairly free from prejudice and capable of physical and moral prowess."
"He was already very old. So his support was, according to what I was told, clandestine."
"With this book, somewhere between a portrait and a novel, you depart somewhat from the pure sociological approach to which you have accustomed us."
"Each book has its own style of writing, more or less spontaneous, depending on the subject, the sources, and the anticipated readers."
"This one took as long to produce, even longer, given its relative thinness, than exclusively scientific research."
"I have been trying for some time now, for example in Les versets de l'invincibilité (1995), or in Récits de la province égyptienne (2005), to free the actors from the matrix of scientific discourse."
"This last one seems to have broadened my audience, and I very much hope for a co-publication in Algeria.."
"Although roots is not exactly the right term: as a European from Algeria who became Algerian,"
"I don't have roots but attachments, loyalties, and loyalties."
"It is a very special historical destiny, both received but above all chosen."
"The Aurès is the native country of my mother, whose family arrived in Chélia and then Khenchela, around 1875."
"I think that indeed, the Aurès has been for me since 1973."
"I often went to spend holidays with my grandmother and my father also loved this region very much."
"I had the places, the toponyms, the people also in memory and in my imagination."
"I began to work there, the local bibliography in French and English was of the order of a tenth of that on Kabylie and the delay is very far from being filled, while there is little work in Arabic elsewhere."
"I would add that the geography as well as the material manifestations of the culture are especially beautiful, and that many of my anthropologist colleagues envied me this choice, which was barely one."
"It's first and foremost a European name that resonates in the heights of the Aurès massif."
"A miller of Italian origin who, having lived in the region, knows the massif better than anyone."
"If we hadn't known, we would never have guessed that he wasn't from around here."
"I felt as though I knew nothing and was entirely self-taught when I began working on the subject."
"I had grown up in a village, Meskiana, and that rural life had deeply shaped me."
"My father wanted me to learn Arabic, so I attended a Qur’anic school for a while during the holidays, before entering high school."
"I saw how children were taught to think."
"I experienced in my own body what the kuttāb was: the cross legged posture, the role of speech and recitation, the swaying of bodies, the love for the calligraphy of letters on the clay coated tablet."
"My article on repetition (Colonna, 1980b) is precisely an analysis of these techniques used to shape thought."
"I loved the kuttāb; I no longer have my childhood lawḥ (tablet), but I bought one for a dinar during my first fieldwork in the Aurès it appears as a frontispiece in Les Versets."
"I attended the reformist Médersa in my village, and there I clearly saw the difference with the Qur’anic school"
"The teacher’s straight trousers and white shirt, the bench and blackboard, the students seated in rows, the discipline of bodies."
"Both types of education left a mark on me the two bodily postures as well as the revelation of the gap that existed between them."
"Learned Islam has given rise to so many studies! By contrast, the anthropology of Islam as the daily practice of its actors has attracted almost no interest."
"What fascinated me at the outset of this research was that there were no detailed studies of ordinary religious practice."
"For a long time, the social sciences gave an image of the Maghreb as a society Islamized without Islam."
"Despite the production, from the end of the first third of the 19th century, of works on religion, the authors seemed to oscillate mainly between two interpretations of North African societies."
"Religion was omnipresent, or it played no role at all in social construction."
"In the important works of Basset (1961) or Laoust (1920), for example, there is no section on religion."
"Gellner did indeed show that the "saints," that is, the religious lineages, had a dual function."
"Serving as arbiters among the "secular," acephalous tribes, where power is by nature unstable, and as mediators with universal Islam, the city, and the Prince, as descendants of the Prophet and “incarnate Word,” that is, carriers of the uncreated Word of God, the Qur’an."
"As for Masqueray, Montagne, and Maunier prominent names in the early sociology of the Maghreb they belonged to the dominant theoretical tradition of Durkheimian sociology in the nascent social sciences."
"Too honest as observers to deny the importance of Islam, they nevertheless produced theoretical constructions that shifted the focus to other elements of social organization (the city, intertribal pacts, customary law)."
"It is indeed with the tālib that one must begin."
"Dedicated to the learning and memorization and recollection of the Qur’an, he had privileged access to the Word."
"He was present at births, and his presence was also required this time in a group to accompany the deceased."
"He acted as an arbiter in cases of marital disputes and family conflicts."
"In the Aurès, he played a decisive role in the summer pilgrimage ritual, in the cult of the minor saints, and in the sacrifice that was then performed."
"His presence legitimized the ceremony, through the role he played in channeling the sacred."
"He therefore held a liturgical function, something that the schoolteacher would never assume thereafter."
"I am inherently a curious person, and I am always questioning everything. *Fundamental science strikes me as being an ideal home for the curious."
"My trajectory towards fundamental physics was not straightforward."
"I started with Medicine as my parents are both medical doctors, this path was not for me though."
"At the library of the university, I discovered the physics textbooks and fell in love with the topic instantly."
"I am a particle physicist and a member of the LHCb collaboration at CERN."
"LHCb is one of the four experiments located on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN."
"One of the primary roles of this experiment is to study the difference between matter and anti-matter as well as search for signatures of particles beyond the Standard Model."
"Particle physics is a discipline that requires a very diverse set of skills, there is room for people with many interests."
"Some may prefer detectors building, data processing, data analysis, machine learning, phenomenology and/or collaboration with theorists."
"What we bring to society is subtle, there is really an urge to continue to understand fundamental concepts of nature."
"Some of the questions we try to address on everyday basis may seem disconnected from daily matters and to some extent they are."
"The heart of fundamental physics is to push further human knowledge, even if maybe we face too many meetings and compilation errors."
"There is a high level of training of young PhD students."
"Particle Physics by its complexity is one of the best schools to learn critical thinking."
"I have been elected Physics Coordinator of the LHCb experiment, my two-year mandate starts on August 1rst, 2022."
"The Run 3 of the LHC is also starting now, so the next coming months will be very challenging and exciting for me and for all our community."
"I have done research mainly between France and Switzerland."
"I interact with people across the world."
"It starts with children, how they are raised and educated."
"The stigma that girls are not good at Math starts when they are tiny."
"The language we use is important, still today I hear statements like"
"When a physicist does his analysis, he will."
"Who writes reference letters for young women should make sure that they promote all the skills and not only her soft skills."
"The people in charge have the responsibility to create an environment where all voices, even the less loud ones can express themselves and their ideas."
"Parental leaves should be respected and the responsibilities of women who return after a leave should be restored to them."
"Scheduling meetings after 17:00 will invertibility discriminate against young mothers and therefore should be avoided."
"I stop here, but there is so much more to say on this topic."
"I feel very proud. Especially for my family who was always supportive of my work."
"I was born and raised in Algiers, in high school I was in “Sciences Exact."
"I arrived in France in 1999 to start medicine."
"For various reasons medicine didn’t quite work out for me, so I started to study fundamental physics which I loved very much."
"I did the equivalent of bachelor and master."
"I did a PhD in particle physics between 2006 and 2009."
"I was a post-doc in EPFL."
"I was partly based at CERN."
"In 2012 I got a job in CNRS where I am now a “chargé de recherche."
"I am a member of the LHCb experiment. *Its one of the four experiments on the LHC ring at CERN."
"The main goal of our experiment is to study the difference between matter and anti-matter but also to look for signs of what we call physics beyond the Standard Model."
"The Standard Model is today somehow the best description that we have of the fundamentals laws of nature."
"What is interesting is that while this model is very powerful and predictive it fails to explain some aspects for nature such as dark matter."
"My institute indeed participated in the discovery of many particles since it was created in the fifties."
"I think it’s important to emphasise the collaborative aspect of these discoveries in particular in the collider physics."
"The facilities and detector which were and will be built are gigantic and they need the association of many institutes in many countries."
"Right now we are in a phase of data taking at the LHC."
"It’s hard to predict if we are going to find new things or not."
"We are all certainly hoping to find something interesting in the data."
"This is an individual award, but my work was achieved as a team."
"I work on what we call in particle physics the 'standard model."
"I liked big machines such as scanners."
"I arrived in France at the beginning of classes."
"I finally found a place to stay, I was already lagging."
"I liked particle physics, I liked the idea to reveal secrets of the world."
"Far from what I had experimented in medical studies, we shared notes between students when one of us was sick."
"She was fascinated by teachers, who were often teachers researchers with thrilling discussions, most of all when you want to work in research."
"I did a three-years post-PhD contract at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne"
"First, I sleep on it and let the subconscious do its great work. Then, I sit down and try to break down the obstacle into smaller parts. I try to explore if there are other paths around the obstacle, ones that I haven’t thought about. For big obstacles, after I have drafted a plan, I always call a close colleague, someone that I trust, to run it by them. Often the situation might be much clearer from a more distant perspective. These chats help me sound out if there is an obvious path that I have missed or maybe I am too emotionally involved in obstacle to see the solution clearly."
"Two tricks that always help me are first to break down my plan into many small tasks that can be accomplished in short periods of time. For example if I have to give a big talk on a subject that I not as familiar with, then I find a list of papers that I want to read, and I read one paper a day. This helps me make the project tangible and less scary. Instead of ‘God, I have to give a huge talk!’, I have transformed the problem into ‘I need to read these 10 papers.’. In this way as well, I can easily measure my progress and the obstacle feels less daunting."
"The second trick is that I keep a small notebook with a list of success that I am proud of. So many times I find that I can recall of my failures or embarrassing moments in an instant. In contrast, all of my successes seem easily forgotten. When I find myself overwhelmed in a moment of panic, this list helps me remind myself of all the tough things that I have successfully overcome in the past. I tell myself - you did it then, you can do it now. Don’t be discouraged."
"I was first deputy director, then director. But in fact, that’s not at all what I wanted to do."
"I was never drawn to management. Since there aren’t enough executives, researchers in our countries are called on to take on various responsibilities."
"When there are only five or six prehistorians for all of Algeria, for example, there is everything to do at once."
"The Park’s headquarters had just been moved to Djanet, and the officials who had been running the Park did not want to go there."
"That’s how I accepted to be the Park’s director, a position that was far from easy."
"life was very difficult. We worked under extremely harsh conditions in a territory the size of a country."
"Without resources, no budget, no vehicles."
"Everything had to be done. As a result, the task and responsibility were enormous."
"My greatest joy was being out in the field all the time."
"From a manager’s perspective, because when you are responsible for a territory of 114,000 km², you have to be everywhere."
"There are regulations governing the park, the headquarters is in Djanet, and you have to go check whether the brigades are functioning."
"What problems they face, how tourist traffic is going, set up infrastructure ensure that it doesn’t disrupt the environment."
"I was shown the door! There’s nothing unusual about that ."
"How many victims of the system are there? I’m neither the first nor the last."
"When you are faced with certain situations, your conscience tells you to leave, that’s all."
"I’m nowhere."
"I really would have liked to stay in Djanet, in the Tassili, and then make the necessary trips for research, documentation."
"That wasn’t possible, so I’m a bit of a nomad."
"Here, I stay; there, I have a job, I try to make a living then I travel for the publication of a book, for its promotion."
"I leave again, because I have to take on a small job, wherever it may be, I go, even if it’s in Australia."
"And for me, these are essential points of reference."
"When I move away a little that is, when I’m in Paris I walk with my head up"
"I need to see the sky. Even if there’s no sun and it’s winter"
"The first thing I do is look up."
"It’s my way of returning to the desert. Because I know that this dose of sky will be beneficial for me throughout the day."
"If I pass through a park, I’ll stop."
"I’ll eat my sandwich in the cold, at 2 degrees."
"I need to see a tree, greenery around me."
"Researchers spend a large part of their time objectifying others without ever questioning their own objectification."
"For how can one objectify others if one does not attempt to objectify one's own history, one's own subjectivity."
"Anthropology must therefore go beyond the divide between objectivism and subjectivism."
"Just as it must also go beyond the determinism of structures."
"Structures exist, of course; they are structured and structuring, of course, but they cannot make explicit all the behaviors and attitudes of social agents."
"Social agents cannot be a pure product of a single structural determinism without taking into account historical and political contingencies, emotions, and free will."
"Being precisely subject and object, this return to reflexivity has opened up avenues for me to understand a generation of men and women with similar dispositions."
"Who have managed to achieve important positions in the scientific, cultural."
"They are said to be "miracle survivors, but the sociological miracle has a history, a social and political genesis that must be re-examined."
"The miracle has to be paid for, it has a price, a price that must be evaluated, put a price on the price."
"After having left the tribe as a child through the violence of war."
"I only found it again thanks to anthropological research."
"After several events, the war, the regroupings, the deaths around 300 out of a population of around 2,000 inhabitants, the imprisonments, the burning of the hamlets, the occupation of the village by the army, the exodus."
"Then came national independence in 1962."
"Its share of hopes and its procession of disappointments."
"In this dizzying transformation of ways of life, of thought, could one claim a return to familiar places."
"This six year old child knew of the tribe only the two maternal and paternal families who embodied, on a local scale, the national turmoil."
"Everything else is discovered, a reconstruction of the facts after investigation."
"The village where I was born comes from a so called religious lineage, in the sense that it seems even more conservative than the surrounding villages."
"The inhabitants claim to be descended from a common ancestor."
"Like all holy groups, it is characterized by a distinctive feature."
"Women are in principle kept away from the outside life of the village."
"The higher the position of men in the social hierarchy."
"The more women are confined to the world of domesticity."
"Only the dominant groups observe the so called maraboutic attitudes."
"This is a small minority those whose function is to manage the sacred and those who manage political power."
"If you love me."
"which ignore men as social agents and apprehend them as individuals, achieving the miraculous accord between demanding nature and desired culture."
"Fundamentally linked to the male sex, a generator of both desire and social disorder."