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Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (R) and his French counterpart Francois Hollande (L) raise their arms as they walk in Tlemcen on December 20, 2012. French President Francois Hollande on Thursday acknowledged France’s “brutal” colonial rule over the Algerian people, without having to apologise, as he sought to launch a new era in ties on a two-day visit. (2nd R in the background is French First Lady Valerie Trierweiler). AFP PHOTO / POOL – PHILIPPE WOJAZER
Areeba
Areeba Hasan is a graduate of Rutgers University, where she received a BA in History with a focus on Soviet/U.S. relations during the Cold War, and the after effects its periphery wars had on the Middle East and East Asia. She previously interned with the SISGI Group’s Alliance for Positive Youth Development from Summer 2011 to Summer 2012. Areeba will now be a featured writer focusing on issues ranging from human rights cases, developments in Middle Eastern politics, and tracking down the current state of previously sensationalized human interest stories.
