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But Matisse's pictorial motives differed from those of all European artists who had visited "the Orient" before. French painters from the 1830s on, starting with Eugene Delacroix, had gone there in search of the picturesque, the exotic, the ready-made subject: mosques and Riffian horsemen, camels and harem slaves...
Madani's party has put forward no concrete proposal to deal with Algeria's sagging economy. There is no guarantee that he can control the radicals, like those who took to the streets last week chanting, "Oh, Jews! The army of Muhammad will return!" And his party's aim to...
The outcome in Algeria is certain to provide a boost for Islamic movements elsewhere. The prospect that haunts is a militant tide that topples unpopular regimes and replaces them with fundamentalist theocracies. Some leaders are beginning to recognize that the most effective safeguard against radical fundamentalism -- or any other dogmatism...
TUNISIA. The country most likely to be shaken by the vote in Algeria is neighboring Tunisia, which also held municipal and regional elections last week. Unlike that in Algeria, Tunisia's Islamic movement, Ennahdha, was banned from fielding candidates. That decision no doubt stemmed from the strong fundamentalist showing in...
Still, since coming to power in 1987, Ben Ali has steered a less anti- Islamic course than did his predecessor. He reopened the Islamic university in Tunis, pardoned some 10,000 political prisoners, loosened press restrictions and encouraged the creation of non-Islamic parties. Ben Ali's gravest challenge may...