Nicole Guiraud Algeria 1962: Diary of the Apocalypse
Nicole Guiraud Algeria 1962: Diary of the Apocalypse Translators Amy L. Hubbell and Muhib Nabulsi with the assistance of the following students from University of Queensland French program: Nikita Aganoff, Julia Ahern, Keny Arcangeli, Gabriella Barnett, Isabella Benfer, Arabella Bennett, Laura Berger-Uichanco, Amy Bergman, Oliver Birgin, Zoe Bloesch, Tessa Boardman, Emma Bristow, Eloise Buckley, Lucy Byram, Bethany Cave, Kate Champain, Kathryn Dekker, Sally Diacaris, Victor Dunncliff, Joshua Easterbrook, Emily Fackender, Jonathan Flintoff, Leela Ford, Richard Gifford, Daniel Goli, Janna Guy, Gheorja Haidley, Ilona Harris, Isabella Hine, Jessica Hoey, Megan Hughes, Melissa Jin, Phoebe Kelly, Tashbib Khan, Jacques Langlasse, Joanna Margetts, Julia Marteau-Reay, Gabriela Matanovic, Emma McLean, Glen Millar, Miranda Murray-Douglass, Giselle Nixon, Minh Pham, Briahna Rasmussen, Coen Riddle, Nicholas Robertson, Cara Sanders-Wall, Hannah Schuch, Yann Sinclair, James Stewart, Hannah Surridge, Isabella Thurecht, David Treng, Madeleine Trudell, Jonte Verwey, Jorja-Rose Wells, Mia Williams Table of Contents Preface: History Repeats Itself (Boualem Sansal) “Slit their throats and they will leave!” Prologue Diary. Algeria, April-July 1962. Chronicle of the last days Algiers, 26 March 1962: the Rue d’Isly Massacre Les Vergers, My Childhood Paradise Epilogue: The Green Ray Documents: Algiers, Rocher Noir, Terror Takes Hold Preface History repeats itself It was in 1962 that Nicole wrote her journal. It would only take a few changes, if we fast- forwarded the clock four decades and stopped the hand… let’s say, on 2005, between 2 April and 19 June, the first and last entries in Nicole’s notes, then changed the names of roads and people, and Nicole’s journal could be that of a young Algerian girl today, recounting the horrors of the civil war during the 1990s that the Algerians now only refer to as the black decade.
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