F rench French rule over Algeria began in 1830 and would end in 1962 after seven years of a ferocious conflict between the pro-independence FLN (National Liberation Front) and the French military ...

For historian Benjamin Stora, a leading specialist in French colonisation and the Algerian war of independence, the current crisis reflects a persistence of the memory problem linked to this ...

“In France, we've stopped talking about the Algerian War, colonisation, French settlement and so on,” she said. “And there's been a blank spot, an absence of history, as [historian Benjamin ...