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(2002) - Interview with Mohammed Harbi - Mohammed Harbi
In this interview, Mohammed Harbi talks about his experiences as an Algerian, specifically within the political context, and the lasting impacts of the French colonizers. Although he had come from a bourgeois family, his experiences were only slightly better than those of the proletariat. This is in part, due to his involvement in various political ideologies, with an eventual migration to nationalism, and coming to join the National Liberal Front (FLN). Harbi also talks about his arrests and failed attempt at becoming a political refugee in France. Overall, Harbi's interview provides a more intimate glimpse inside his life as a politically involved advocate.
How do you get rid of a phantom and create another self-image? You have to cleanse yourself first. So the French are trying to get over their guilt. And that has become possible because the generation that fought the war no longer has a stranglehold over the political system, except, to a limited extent, in the army.