Sociologists From Algeria

"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."

"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’"

"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"?"

"We must stop the process of degradation of our education and learning system. In­telligence is the key to success."

"I is keen on implementing rules and requirements needed to ensure security in the workplace, which call for the swift identification of public servants."

"A thorough investigation into the origin of this dissemination will nevertheless be carried out and justice is the only party empowered to rule on such situations."

"We should not passively stand in front of such a possible leak."

"Facebook would be blocked across the country throughout the entire period. While they are "not comfortable" with the decision, "we should not passively stand in front of such a possible leak"."

"Additionally, all electronic devices with internet access - for both students and school staff - have been banned from the country's 2,000 exam halls, with metal detectors set up at their entrances."

"Surveillance cameras and mobile phone jammers had been installed at exam printing presses."

"Just over 700,000 students will sit the high school certificate examinations over the next week, with results expected from 22 July."

"However, the 2017 baccalaureate exams started in “excellent conditions” without “any leakage of subjects”."

"Upon gaining independence a country always perceives education as an essential tool toward development, and one of the major aims of third world countries is to democratize or open up their education systems."