An Algerian village’s tryst with colonialism and development (Ehtesham Shahid, Al Arabiya)

A village called Shabat, perched on the hills across the Mediterranean Sea in western Algeria, has witnessed remarkable transformation over and over again. For centuries, the region surrounding Shabat contained agricultural wealth that became subject of greed for outside powers – from the Romans to the Spaniards, and the Ottomans – until the French arrived in the last century.

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