Algeria a fost ultima ţară din Maghreb care şi-a obţinut independenţa. Situaţia acestui teritoriu era una dramatică pentru populaţia musulmană majoritară. Ca şi în celelalte teritorii maghrebiene, Algeria s-a aflat sub influenţa Vichy-ului până la debarcarea trupelor aliate din 1942. Înainte de instaurarea regimului de la Vichy, de Gaulle propunea instaurarea centrului de rezistenţă în Algeria, de unde franţa să...

Some of the world`s earliest known churches have been recently discovered in Jordan. These include a 4th century at Umm Qays, a possible 2nd or 3rd century AD “prayer hall” at Bethany, beyond the Jordan, and the remains of a mud brick building at Aqaba that may be the world`s oldest known purpose built church. The Aqaba building dates from the late 3rd or early 4th century AD. The American archeologists who excavated it believe...

La un an de la proclamarea independentei (17.02.2008), situatia din Kosovo ramane marcata de incertitudini, dar si de sperante pentru ambele tabere. Incertitudinile sunt mentionate si in raportul anual prezentat Congresului la 13 februarie de catre directorul comunitatii americane de informatii, Dennis Blair. Raportul anticipeaza ca situatia din Kosovo reprezinta in continuare unul din principalele riscuri de instabilitate in Europa in...

The official Cuban policy today is hardly to create a “new man” but to survive amidst extremely difficult conditions.Guevara resigned of his official positions in 1965 and went to create new guerrilla fronts against imperialism. A foreign policy of armed revolution goes hand in hand with a domestic policy of development through moral incentives. In 1965, Che declared in Algiers: “There are no frontiers in this struggle to...

Over the last thirty years, a significant number of books have been published on the Irish Republican Army. The last few months have seen the release of two works of high quality. Ed Moloney’s “A Secret History of the IRA” (Penguin, 2002) is likely to become the standard if not the definitive- work on the history of the Provisional IRA. Ed Moloney is a serious journalist who has covered the conflict in the North of Ireland for over...