Hope and fear in Algeria

The regime can no longer buy off the under-30s with cheap public housing and subsidized jobs because oil revenues have fallen steeply, and they are too young to remember the horrors of the civil war.

Abdelaziz Bouteflikae, Algeria's 82-year-old president, was forced to resign this week after six weeks of peaceful demonstrations. Photograph by Magharebia via Twitter

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

April 4, 2019

LONDON, U.K.—One of the most popular slogans in the street protests in Algeria has been, “Neither beard, nor kamis, nor police.” That needs a bit of translation. “Beard” refers to male Muslims who want to demonstrate h...

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