Through an analysis of the Iraq’s engineered genocides against Kurds during the years of Saddam Hussein’s regime, this work aimed to reveal the weakness of the current political and social situation in Iraq. The purpose was to offer an overview of the dangers posed by the current difficult coexistence between the Federal Government in Baghdad and the Kurdish Regional Government in Erbil. The birth of a new political system after the fall of Saddam's regime meant that every institutional power had to be built from scratch in a political and social reality new to most Iraqis. This process of renovation, already witnessed in Europe after World War II, in particular in Italy and Germany, implied the writing of a new constitution and of a new set of legal frames with the purpose to give the country a strong and reliable democratic base. In the case of Iraqi Kurds, who suffered discrimination, death and, ultimately genocide, it is important to revisit their recent past in order to feel they are an integral part of the new country born after the last Gulf War in 2003. Despite the international interest in the Kurdish case, Kurdish people did not have the opportunity to see the ones responsible of the crimes committed against them brought to international justice, as happened in the past in the case of Rwanda and Bosnia. The execution of Saddam Hussein in 2006 meant that the charges against him and his commanders related to the Kurdish case were not discussed in court preventing Kurdish people not only from obtaining the justice they were entitled to but, most importantly, from gaining access to the truth about the massacres and human rights abuses carried out by Saddam's regime between 1963 and 2003. Through an analysis of the Iraq’s engineered genocides against Kurds during the years of Saddam Hussein’s regime, this work aimed to reveal the weakness of the current political and social situation in Iraq. The purpose was to offer an overview of the dangers posed by the current difficult coexistence between the Federal Government in Baghdad and the Kurdish Regional Government in Erbil. The birth of a new political system after the fall of Saddam's regime meant that every institutional power had to be built from scratch in a political and social reality new to most Iraqis. This process of renovation, already witnessed in Europe after World War II, in particular in Italy and Germany, implied the writing of a new constitution and of a new set of legal frames with the purpose to give the country a strong and reliable democratic base. In the case of Iraqi Kurds, who suffered discrimination, death and, ultimately genocide, it is important to revisit their recent past in order to feel they are an integral part of the new country born after the last Gulf War in 2003. Despite the international interest in the Kurdish case, Kurdish people did not have the opportunity to see the ones responsible of the crimes committed against them brought to international justice, as happened in the past in the case of Rwanda and Bosnia. The execution of Saddam Hussein in 2006 meant that the charges against him and his commanders related to the Kurdish case were not discussed in court preventing Kurdish people not only from obtaining the justice they were entitled to but, most importantly, from gaining access to the truth about the massacres and human rights abuses carried out by Saddam's regime between 1963 and 2003.

The purpose of this research is to examine the socio-economic legacies of the French Protectorate in Morocco and the attitude of modern-day Moroccans to that legacy, through a series of in-depth interviews with a wide range of people who lived through colonialism and came after it. I use these interviews alongside documents of the time and the findings of contemporary commentators to chart the establishment of the Protectorate's social and economic policies in Morocco and how they destroyed the traditional infrastructure and cultural heritage of the country to replace them by a more 'modern and civilised' westernised system. I argue that, although some good did come from French colonialism in Morocco, these policies were not viable and so, when decolonisation came about, the country was unable to sustain itself and, therefore, had no choice but to continue to look to France both financially and educationally. Through highlighting how France transformed every aspect of Moroccan life to match that of la Métropole, this research shows why Moroccans find it so hard to shake off their colonial past, why they continue to use the French language in business, politics and education and why, unless Morocco steps out of the shadow of its former occupier, and make its own way in the world, they feel it will never be truly independent.

The purpose of this research is to examine the socio-economic legacies of the French Protectorate in Morocco and the attitude of modern-day Moroccans to that legacy, through a series of in-depth interviews with a wide range of people who lived through colonialism and came after it. I use these interviews alongside documents of the time and the findings of contemporary commentators to chart the establishment of the Protectorate's social and economic policies in Morocco and how they destroyed the traditional infrastructure and cultural heritage of the country to replace them by a more - modern and civilised - westernised system. I argue that, although some good did come from French colonialism in Morocco, these policies were not viable and so, when decolonisation came about, the country was unable to sustain itself and, therefore, had no choice but to continue to look to France both financially and educationally. Through highlighting how France transformed every aspect of Moroccan life to match that of la Métropole, this research shows why Moroccans find it so hard to shake off their colonial past, why they continue to use the French language in business, politics and education and why, unless Morocco steps out of the shadow of its former occupier, and make its own way in the world, they feel it will never be truly independent.

Cette thèse retrace l’histoire de l’Association des Oulémas Musulmans Algériens (AOMA), de sa fondation en contexte colonial (1931) à sa réactivation dans l’Algérie des années 1990. Par sa définition de l’identité arabe et musulmane de l’Algérie, l’AOMA a joué un rôle fondamental dans la construction de l’État algérien, malgré la disparition de sa structure formelle entre 1962 et 1991. Les activités éducatives et religieuses de l’Association, son positionnement dans la guerre d’indépendance ont conditionné l’insertion de ses membres dans l’Algérie postcoloniale. L’étude des parcours des membres dirigeants de l’AOMA donne à voir les adaptations et les stratégies d’appropriation de l’héritage de l’Association. Si certains cadres de l’AOMA participèrent au gouvernement du parti unique FLN et construisirent les bases de l’islam d’État, d’autres furent des figures de la contestation du pouvoir socialiste au nom de l’islam, qui fut reprise par les mouvements islamistes naissants des années 1980.Fondée sur des sources en langues arabe et française, qui vont des archives étatiques de la période coloniale aux mémoires d’acteurs de l’AOMA, des journaux de l’Association aux revues du Ministère des Affaires Religieuses en passant par des entretiens, et sur un important travail de terrain, cette thèse se propose de questionner les clichés courants sur l’Algérie contemporaine liés à l’héritage de l’AOMA. À travers la définition de la nation et de l’islam par les Oulémas, ce sont les enjeux culturels, l’arabisation, la définition de l’islam et de sa place dans l’Algérie postcoloniale sont étudiés dans un souci constant de les resituer par rapport à l’histoire du monde arabe et musulman. / This dissertation recounts the history of the Association of the Algerian Muslim Ulama (AAMU), from its birth in a colonial context (1931) until its reactivation in the 1990’s. By its definition of the Arab and Muslim identity of Algeria, the AAMU played a crucial role in the construction of the Algerian state, despite the disappearing of its formal structure as an organization between 1962 and 1991. The educative and religious activities of the Association, its position during the War for Independence, conditioned the integration of its members in postcolonial Algeria. The study of the AAMU executive members’ paths in the aftermath of the Independence shows the adaptations and strategies to claim for the legacy of the Association. If some of the executive members of the Association got involved in the FLN-ruled state and built the cornerstone of State Islam, some others became prominent figures of the opposition to the socialist state in the name of Islam, that the growing Islamist movement took over in the 1980’s. Based on various primary sources, both in Arabic and French languages, from archives of the colonial state to memoirs of AAMU members, from the Association’s newspapers to the journal of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, including oral sources, this dissertation offers to question the widespread clichés on contemporary Algeria linked to the AAMU. Through the Ulama’s definition of the nation and Islam, it is the history of postcolonial Algeria that is at stake. We study cultural issues, arabization, definition of Islam and its place in the society in a constant concern of contextualising through the frame of the wider Arab and Muslim world.

Résumé : Suite à la première croisade (1096-1099) qui aboutit à l’établissement de quatre États latins au Proche-Orient, les chrétiens et les musulmans s’engagent durant les deux siècles suivants dans une lutte pour le contrôle du territoire syro-palestinien, également connu sous le nom de Bilâd al-Shâm. Toutefois, l’essor de nouvelles dynasties musulmanes, soit les zengides, les ayyoubides et les mameloukes, permet avec le regain du jihad une reconquête graduelle des possessions chrétiennes, mettant fin à l’existence des États latins d’Orient en 1291 malgré plusieurs croisades. Cette reconquête progressive menée par les musulmans s’accompagne de divers processus d’appropriation et de marquage de l’espace obéissant à un cadre islamique et pouvant être regroupés selon deux concepts : l’islamisation et l’arabisation. En analysant plusieurs sources chrétiennes latines, telles des chroniques, des récits de pèlerinage et des projets de croisade, nous constatons que les chrétiens affichent une certaine connaissance de ces processus d’appropriation religieuse, politique, sociale et culturelle. À la lumière des perceptions chrétiennes de l’islam et de la polémique anti-musulmane, la présente étude se penche sur les différents processus d’islamisation et d’arabisation perçus par les chrétiens latins et démontre comment ces processus sont interprétés par ces derniers. // Abstract : After the First Crusade (1096-1099) and the establishment of four Crusader states in the Near East, Christians and Muslims initiate a two century struggle for the control of the Levant, also known as Bilâd al-Shâm. However, the rise of new Muslim powers, such as the Zengid, Ayyubid and Mamluk dynasties, allows a revival of jihad and a gradual conquest of Christian territories, thus putting an end to the Crusader states in 1291. This conquest is accompanied by several mechanisms of territorial appropriation in the newly captured territories, linked to processes of Islamization and Arabization. By analyzing many Latin sources, such as chronicles, pilgrimage relations and Crusade manifestos, we find that Christians show a certain knowledge of these processes of religious, political, social and cultural appropriation. In light of Christian perceptions of Islam and of the anti-Islamic polemic, this study examines the different processes of Islamization and Arabization as seen by Christians and shows how these processes were understood.

« Nous ne savons plus si nous sommes Arabes, Berbères ou Français », déclara le président de la république algérien Abdelaziz Bouteflika.Cette étude sera consacrée à éclaircir plusieurs points concernant l’identité culturelle algérienne avant et après l’indépendance. Le but n’est pas de relater l’histoire de l’Algérie, travail qui a déjà été effectué par d’imminents historiens français et algériens ; le but est surtout de démontrer qu’une histoire aussi riche, aussi variée, aussi complexe, aussi prestigieuse, ne peut être effacée, confisquée, au détriment d’une histoire soi-disant représentative de l’unité nationale, une histoire étroite, mutilée et appauvrie, telle qu’elle est conçue actuellement en Algérie. Il ne s’agit pas non plus de dénigrer les éléments reconnus officiellement de l’identité culturelle algérienne, à savoir l’islam et la langue arabe, vu qu’ils font réellement partie du paysage ethnoculturel du pays, mais plutôt de démontrer que d’autres éléments, plus inconnus ont contribué à faire de l’Algérie ce qu’elle est aujourd’hui. Il est temps de lever le voile, de comprendre et de savoir que l’Algérie est une terre qui a existé pendant des millénaires, sur laquelle sont nées et se sont développées des civilisations, qu’elle en a accueilli d’autres, et qu’en dépit de farouches résistances, s’en est imprégnée de manière telle que sa mutation a été pratiquement perpétuelle tout au long de ces millénaires. En fait, celui qui veut connaître l’Algérie doit étudier plusieurs siècles avant l’Algérie et cinquante années d’Algérie algérienne. / “We don’t know if we are Arabs, Berbers or French” announced Abdelaziz Bouteflika president of Algerian republic.This study will be devoted to resolve some points about Algerian cultural identity. It is not in order to recall the history of Algerian but it is in order to demonstrate that Algeria has a very rich history; varied and prestigious. Certainly, Arabic and Islam are part of Algerian cultural identity; given that other elements unknown: The country has its own cultural and history dating back thousands of years before Islam. Many civilizations literally centuries are borne in Algeria and developed in such a way that it is very Important to know and to study.This responsibility must also be seen as an opportunity to contribute and belong to a larger community sharing overarching identity with a variety to meal components.

La politique d’arabisation commune aux trois pays du Maghreb,a été beaucoup plus problématique en Algérie.En effet,le cas algérien attire particulièrement l’attention dans la mesure où l’équation sociolinguistique demeure irrésolue. Les récentes évolutions en matière linguistique à l’exemple de la reconnaissance de la langue berbère,Tamazight,comme langue officielle, montrent en effet que la question linguistique n’est pas un acquis, mais aussi que celle-ci est fortement liée au pouvoir politique.C’est dans ce cadre que nous avons choisi d’appréhender la politique d’arabisation algérienne de 1962 à 2000 en tant qu’enjeu multidimensionnel,avec pour exemple l’arabisation du système éducatif algérien afin d’en mesurer les conséquences sur l’ensemble du système algérien.Cette thèse s’articule autour de deux parties.La première partie pose les jalons de la construction de l’Etat algérien,à travers une rétrospective historique allant de l’Algérie précoloniale à l’Algérie contemporaine.Dans cette partie, deux chapitres sont abordés,le premier portant sur la genèse du système politique algérien à travers lequel sont analysés les principes et fondements de l’Etat algérien et sa formation nationale;et le second est consacré à la construction identitaire algérienne autour de la politique d’arabisation et particulièrement de la généralisation de l’utilisation de la langue arabe, et dans lequel a été questionné le rapport entre politique d’arabisation et édification nationale et identitaire.D’autre part, dans une deuxième partie traitant des usages politiques de l’arabisation en Algérie,un premier chapitre empirique a été traité afin de cerner la politique d’arabisation de façon plus pragmatique, notamment à travers son application dans l’enseignement algérien; et enfin dans un second et dernier chapitre,c’est la politique d’arabisation au cœur du pouvoir algérien et la mise en exergue des dynamiques, des enjeux et des luttes de pouvoir que cette politique a fait naître qui sont étudiés. Dans cette perspective, nous nous sommes interrogés sur le rôle et la fonction de la politique d’arabisation dans la construction nationale et étatique algérienne, et plus globalement dans l’édification du système politique algérien. En d’autres termes, il s’agit de déconstruire les liens entre une politique dite linguistique et le pouvoir qui l’a mise en place en retraçant l’évolution historique de la politique d’arabisation algérienne depuis l’indépendance du pays en 1962 jusqu’en 2000.L’on verra ainsi comment cette politique est présentée d’abord comme une politique linguistique, puis comme une politique identitaire et idéologique pour enfin se révéler être une politique de pouvoir et véritable enjeu de luttes entre les différentes factions au pouvoir.Ainsi,d’un point de vue strictement théorique,nous avons utilisé une approche constructiviste, de construction nationale mais aussi identitaire,en nous appuyant sur des théoriciens tels qu’Anthony D.Smith,Ernest Gellner,Benedict Anderson,Adrian Hastings,ou encore Juan Linz. Du point de vue idéologique,la politique d’arabisation relève clairement de l’idéologie arabo-musulmane dans laquelle s’inscrit explicitement l’aile conservatrice du parti unique FLN (Front de libération nationale) qui l’a instaurée.A partir de là,nous avons questionné le rapport de la politique d’arabisation à l’idéologie arabo-musulmane.Ce sont donc tous ces éléments, politiques, idéologiques et identitaires qui donnent naissance à la mise en place d’une succession importante de lois d’arabisations.Parmi elles,la principale est la loi n°91-05 portant généralisation de l’utilisation de la langue arabe qui a connu de nombreux bouleversements.Tout cela montre à quel point,la politique d’arabisation a été un processus lent,discontinu,parfois fragile,mais surtout qu’elle a été davantage au cœur de luttes de pouvoir,en servant ce dernier qu’une politique linguistique à proprement parler servant la langue arabe et la population arabophone. / The arabization policy is a common policy to the three countries of Maghreb,Morocco,Tunisia and Algeria.However,it has been more problematical in Algeria than in the two other countries. Actuallly,the algerian case is interesting to study because of the fact that the linguistic equation is still challenging and remain unresolved.The latest evolutions in the linguistic field,as the example of the recognition of the berber language,Tamazight,as an official language,show that this topic cannot be considered as an acquis,and above all that it’s an issue that is very much tied to political power.In that context,we’ve chosen to discuss the arabization policy from 1962 to 2000 as a multidimensionnal issue,with the example of the educational system in order to give a more valid measure of its impact on the algerian system as a whole,the political,social and economic system as well as the ideological,linguistic and cultural one.This thesis is structured around two parts.The purpose of the first part is to establish the foundations of the construction of the algerian state,through an historical retrospective from the pre-colonial period to the post-colonial one.In this part,two chapters are submited.The first one deals with the algerian political system’s genesis into which the principles and foundations of the algerian state and its national formation;the second chapter focuses on the algerian identity building around the arabization policy and especially the generalization of the utilization of the arabic language,it questions the link between arabizaion policy and national and identitary building.On the other hand,the second part is about the political purposes of the arabization policy in Algeria in which the first chapter is empirical in order to get a clear understanding of the pratical side of the arabization policy,particularly in the educational system;and finally the second and last chapter is about arabization and power,it comes to include arabization policy in the heart of the algerian power and to point out the dynamics,the issues,concerns and struggles that are involved by such a policy.When we look at that perspective,we have questioned the role and function of the arabization policy in the algerian state and national building,and more generally in the edification of the algerian system and its particular characteristics.In other words,it is about deconstructing the links between a policy known as linguistic and the power that established it,by tracing the historical evolution of the arabization policy since Algeria’s independance in 1962 to 2000.Thus,we have seen how the arabization policy has been first presented as a linguistic policy,then as an identity policy and finally has proven to be a power policy and a real power game and struggle.In this way, from a strict theorical point of you,we’ve first presented a constructivist approach of a national building and identity building,by using theorists’ references such as those of Anthony D.Smith,Ernest Gellner,Benedict Anderson, Adrian Hastings,and Juan Linz.From an ideological point of view,arabization policy goes to arab-islamic ideology into which explicitly fit the conservative faction of the single party NLF(National Liberation Front)which has initiated it.The arab-muslim orientation is begining to dawn at the first sign of algerian nationalism.From there,the relation between arabization policy and arab-muslim ideology has been questioned.All these facts,political,ideological and identity ones set up a series of arabization laws. Amongst them,the main one is the law n°91-05 on the generalization of the utilization of the arabic language which has experienced difficulties.All of this points out how much arabization policy has been a very long process,discontinuous,and fragile.But especially,we have proved that arabization policy has been more a power issue serving the algerian political regime than a linguistic policy serving arabic language and population.

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This thesis analyzes the sociolinguistic situations in postcolonial Latin America and francophone North Africa (the Maghreb) through a comparative lens. Specifically, it examines the ways in which Spain and France’s differing colonial agendas and language ideologies affected the relationships between colonizer and colonized, and, by extension, the role that Spanish and French play(ed) in these regions after decolonization. Finally, it explores how Spain and France’s contemporary discourses frame colonial participation in the two languages’ development, and the psychological effects these ideologies have had on the formerly colonized.

Comment les locuteurs kabyles vivent-ils la diversité linguistique de leur région ? Dans quellemesure les discours épilinguistiques (discours proférés sur les langues) de nos informateursproduisent-ils une hiérarchisation des langues et des espaces dans le contexte kabyle ? Quelleattitude adoptent-ils et comment réagissent-ils face à cette hiérarchisation sociolinguistique età la relation langue/dominance dans leur imaginaire sociolinguistique ? À quel point lesdiscours épilinguistiques de nos informateurs énoncent-ils le statut et la légitimité d’emploi dukabyle comparativement aux autres systèmes linguistiques (il s’agit dans ce cas de l’arabe etdu français) posés en complémentarité ou en concurrence ? Nous verrons en quoi les discoursépilinguistiques de nos informateurs leur permettent de poser et de décliner leur identitésociale par une appropriation ou un rejet de ce qui est dit sur leur langue et leur territoire.Nous entendons par territoire non seulement la Kabylie en tant qu’entité géographique maisaussi en tant qu’espace linguistique et social. En effet, nous verrons comment se produisentl'appropriation symbolique de l'espace et le marquage sociolinguistique du territoire kabylepar le biais des représentations de nos informateurs. L’objectif de notre travail est de menerune réflexion théorique sur la question de l’articulation entre l’identité, le langage, l'espace etles représentations sociolinguistiques. / How do Kabyle speakers live their region’s linguistic diversity? To what extent do ourinformants’ epilinguistic discourses made about languages produce a hierarchy of bothlanguage and geographical space in the Kabyle context? What attitude do they adopt and howdo they react to this sociolinguistic prioritization and to the matter of language Vs dominancein their sociolinguistic imagination? To what extent do the informants’ epilinguisticdiscourses portray the status and the legitimacy of the use of Kabyle language compared toother linguistic systems (in that case Arabic and French languages), put in a complimentary orin a competing relationship? In fact, we will demonstrate how the epilinguistic discourses ofour informants allow them to state and convey their social identity through appropriation orrejection of what is said about their language and territory. By territory, we mean not onlyKabylie as a geographical entity but as a linguistic and social space as well. Indeed, we shallexpose how both the symbolic appropriation of space and the Kabyle sociolinguistic markingof territory are produced through the representations of our informants. The purpose of ourwork is to conduct a theoretical reflection on the relationship between identity, language,space and sociolinguistic representations.