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    over and began to colonize Algeria. From employment to industry, Algeria’s systems were reworked and altered. All aspects of an Algerian’s daily life were affected, but among the most significant were political and economic arrangements. The changes made by the French dominated key components of Algeria. From 1830 to 1900, the economic and political impacts of France on Algeria were the changes made to agriculture, education, and land ownership in order to modernize Algeria and rebuild its culture to

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    The Evian Accords which were signed in 1962 giving Algeria immediate independence and French aid to help reconstruct the country. The French Sahara with its oil resources was also handed over to Algeria. In return the FLN guaranteed protection and civil rights for the French Algerians choosing to remain in the country, and the option of choosing either French or Algerian nationality after three years. Eight years of war had shattered Algeria. There had been more than one million Algerian casualties

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    Algeria is located in North Africa, bordered in the northeast by Tunisia, the east by Libya the west by Morocco. The north land of Algeria is mountainous and very fertile, while the south is integrated with parts of the Sahara desert. The desert makes up more than 80% of Algeria. Algeria is 919,590 square miles making it the second largest country on the African Continent and the tenth largest country in the world. Culture is comprised of many different elements. Algeria is rich in culture and

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    De Gaulle and the Achievement of Independence in Algeria Algeria underwent a long struggle to gain independence from France. Its people had seemed to be happy with the colonisation of its country until France was occupied by Germany in the Second World War. This defeat along with others in Vietnam and other colonies proved to the Algerians that France was not the superpower they had once believed it was, and nationalist feelings began to grow. As the nationalist movement

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    Algeria, which is taken up mostly by the Sahara desert, was apart of the Ottoman Empire lead by Hussein Dey until France launched war due to a disagreement between a French consul and their leader. And also because of their desire to expand their empire. They seized Algiers in 1830 and came to have an intense impact on the area and its populations. Quickly France took control over the coastal communities, Dey went into exile and the Algerians were resistant up until about the 1840s and by 1847

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    Has Political Islam Failed in Algeria?      The question whether Political Islam has failed or not due to the internal structure of the Islamic political movement, in either Algeria or any other country in the Islamic World, is an important question for the analysis of the politicized Islamic phenomena. Olivier Roy sees the movement as a failure, not only in Algeria but also in the whole area from Casablanca to Tashkent, the movement has resulted in failure due to many

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    Imperialism In Algeria

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    regimes in Algeria offered contributions to the Algerian migration. The idea is best clarified in what is stated by Chirstopher (2012) "The French colonial conquest dramatically reshaped patterns of Algerian border crossing"(p.1). The first argument to reinforce this would be that French used a considerable number of Algerians and mobilized them to serve its political conflicts with the European powers like in the First

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    Busa 3000 Country Paper

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    Country Background Algeria, officially known as the Peoples' Democratic Republic of Algeria, is located in Northern Africa. It borders the countries of Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Libya, Tunisia, and the disputed land of Western Sahara. Algeria has a prominent coastline, and its capital city of Algiers is located on a bay of the Mediterranean Sea. The territorial size of the country is 2,381,740 square kilometers (919,594 square miles) which is more than three times the size of Texas (U

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    Algeria is located in North Africa on the Mediterranean Sea. It is situated to the west of Libya and Tunisia and east of Morocco. The north is fertile and mountainous, in contrast to the south that includes parts of the Sahara desert. In all, more than four-fifths of Algeria is desert. Algeria is 919,590 square miles and is the tenth largest country in the world. The country’s population is 29.2 million and is growing annually at 2.2 percent. About 75 percent of all residents are under the age of

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    the Construction Market In the aftermath of a bloody terrorism period that the country had to go through in the 90’s until the early 2000s, Algeria embarked on a reconstruction program to revive its old and outdated infrastructure, offering the traditional trade partner the opportunity to become an increasingly important investor in the country. Today Algeria has become one of the biggest markets for China 's overseas construction contractors, as hundreds of Chinese companies are undertaking in the

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