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Last week I watched the The Battle of Algiers a 1966 movie from Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo about the events of 1954-1962 in Algiers that lead to the independence of Algeria from the French.
The movie has been claimed to be an unbiais account of the events, but I can’t help to think that there [...]

It probably took for me to emigrate to the US from my native country of Switzerland to really appreciate my parent’s heritage and culture. Them too emigrated from their birth country (Algeria in North Africa) to Europe, although in their case, not by choice but out of fear for their life. In 1830 Algeria became [...]