http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/north-africa Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:11:34 -0400 Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:11:34 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1016/mob-violence-against-women-in-algeria-a-historical-case-analysis By Renee S. Grozelle - Violence against women has recently become well recognized as a violation of human rights that holds worldwide significance. Unfortunately, violence against women outside of North America has gone largely unnoticed among the academic community and the media. Algerian citizens have seen this failure to acknowledge violent incidents targeting women as a simplistic representation of underlying problems facing Algerian women in local communities. This paper applies Marshall and Stockes’ (1981) Schematic Presentation of Political Contingencies in an effort to identify historical and cultural... Fri, 20 Mar 2015 03:36 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1016/mob-violence-against-women-in-algeria-a-historical-case-analysis http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1201/barack-benghazi-and-bungles-tracing-the-obama-administrations-handling-of-the-benghazi-attacks By Paul Baumgardner - The anti-Muslim video, entitled Innocence of Muslims, had incensed multitudes worldwide, but was met with a particularly virulent response in the Middle East. Even a cursory review of recent Libyan history makes the administration's initial stance on Benghazi appear reasonable. In the years leading up to the Benghazi attacks, perceived slights against Islam had spurred several instances of violence in Libya: "a 2006 assault by local Islamists that had destroyed an Italian diplomatic mission in Benghazi over a perceived insult to the prophet… In June, the group [Ansar al-Sharia] staged a... Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1201/barack-benghazi-and-bungles-tracing-the-obama-administrations-handling-of-the-benghazi-attacks http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1062/who-drove-the-libyan-uprising By Alex Serafimov - During the armed conflict to topple Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, a common question for observers was “who are the Libyan opposition?” Indeed, for one scholar this was the ‘billion dollar question’,1 and, in the United States, it was a common concern.2 Conspicuously absent from most media discourse, and rarely discussed in narratives of the conflict, is who the armed militants and Libya’s new leadership are. Technocratic, neoliberal, exile and Islamist elements mingle under the moniker of “anti-Gaddafi forces” and the National Transitional Council (NTC), which... Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1062/who-drove-the-libyan-uprising http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/518/democracy-and-islamism-in-algeria-islamocracy By Marissa B. Goldfaden - "The economic difficulties of the mid to late 1980s coincided with the large scale rise of Islamism, as many middle-class educated youth found themselves jobless and without prospects. Islamism offered a governmental alternative that was more authentic culturally than imported, Western ideologies such as socialism, which had failed. The riots of October 1988 marked the end of Algeria's one party rule, as the government formally liberalized in 1989, allowing for competition between political parties. This political opening was exploited by Islamists, who quickly formed the Islamic Salvation... Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:13 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/518/democracy-and-islamism-in-algeria-islamocracy