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THE OTHER INTIFADA ALGERIA'S BERBER MINORITY RESISTS ASSIMILATION INTO ARAB CULTURE. AFTER A TWO-YEAR UPRISING AGAINST MILITARY RULE, CAN THEY HELP REDEFINE GOVERNANCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST?
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"WE ARE ARABS, we are Arabs, we are Arabs!" proclaimed Ahmed Ben
Bella, soon to be the first president of independent Algeria, just
after being released from a French colonial prison in 1962. A
colleague of his reportedly muttered that if Ben Bella repeated
those words enough times, "they just might come true." There was,
indeed, an anxiety lurking beneath Ben Bella's mantra. For he knew
as well as anyone that nearly a quarter of his Muslim compatriots
were not Arab but Berber.
For several decades, the Algerian government has dealt with the
Berbers, the descendants of Algeria's ...
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Karachi commuters to suffer till giving a chance to rail-based public transport.
News Wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International
; Karachi, March 23 (PPI): Urban cities always...based public transport systems. Perhaps Karachi is the lone example of cosmopolitan cities...experiences in public transport sector of Karachi have no proved beyond the doubt that millions...
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Karachi badly needs rail-based Mass Transit System, induction of large buses: seminar told.
News Wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International
; Karachi, Aug. 28 (PPI): Karachi badly needs rail based Mass Transit System as well as induction...Foundation (PPF) at Vickey Zeitlin Media Library, Press Center Karachi. Those who spoke on the occasion include Dr. Tahir Soomro, EDO...
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Karachi Mixes Business and Bombings
News Wire article from: AP Online
; KARACHI, Pakistan - Despite its status as Pakistan...commerce, violence has routinely visited Karachi's seething streets: from political and...it's disappointing, but this is our Karachi." Karachi was Pakistan's capital until...
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Karachi needs true political representation: moot told.
News Wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International
; Karachi, August 26(PPI): Speakers of a moot here on Sunday that the rulers had handed Karachi over to killers and extortionists to prolong...speaking at a seminar titled A case of Karachi, organized by Karachi Shehri Ittehad at...
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Karachi inferno.
Magazine article from: Economic Review
; The re-emergence of violence in Karachi has assumed unprecedented heights. At...places. Political leaders are viewing Karachi situation with angles of their own suitings...foreign countries for the killings in Karachi. Amid shifting responsibilities and contradictory...
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Karachi athletes on top in Sindh Games.
News Wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International
; ...arrangements for participating teams of Karachi, Larkana, Sukkur and Mirpurkhas have...receive tough contest from the athletes of Karachi, the all times winner of Sindh games...dominancy of the male and female athletes of Karachi. According to records, Karachi set 12...
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Karachi teems with destitute, al-Qaida hiding out among them.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; KARACHI, Pakistan _ They're here and everyone...in Afghanistan, and a former mayor of Karachi said his multi-ethnic city of 15 million...being "Talibanized" by the escapees. Karachi's huge size and porous harbor, plus...
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Karachi growing, expanding despite numerous lacunas, shortcomings: seminar told.
News Wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International
; Karachi, Nov. 03 (PPI): Academicians, planners, experts and City District Government Karachi (CDGK) representatives at a seminar on...lacunas in planning and administration, Karachi was rapidly growing and developing, both...
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Karachi Goths still await regularization.
News Wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International
; Karachi, October 16 (PPI): Millions of people of Goths and Katchi Abadis of Karachi have been anxiously waiting for the regularization...ABD report more than 40 percent population of Karachi resides in these Katchi Abadis and Goths dotted...
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Sports: Karachi Whites, Karachi Reds win in Veterans tourney.
News Wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International
; Karachi, Dec 22 PPI: Karachi Whites defeated Karachi Greens by 17 runs in the Sixth PVCA Shell-AKD Inter City Veterans Cricket Tournament South Zone League on Monday at PCB Ground Karachi. Karachi Whites elected to bat first made 169-9 in...
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