THE ALGERIAN HIRAK: ASSESSING ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS FROM A NON-COLONIALIST PERSPECTIVE
This academic contribution seeks to provide an objective and scientific interpretation of the Algerian protests movement which started since February 22, 2019, and named as the Algerian Hirak. The article attempted to free the coverage of this major event in the history of independent Algeria from the narrowly ideological and political writings and post-colonial-oriented media and communication plans that attempted to falsify the reality of this popular dynamism and distort its emancipatory aims. The presentation of this non-colonial perspective of the Algerian Hirak came in the context of the post-colonial theory that was employed as a central theoretical tool in this essay. This work focused on the essential aspects related to the Algerian Hirak, including its nature, its causes and motives, the most significant internal and external constraints and challenges facing it, the most important proposed solutions and applied policies to achieve its demands, its major achievements and failures as well as its most important future prospects. On the other hand, the article affirmed that the Algerian Hirak, and if its demands and aspirations were sincerely embodied, would inevitably allow Algeria to start a new path for economic development and political stability and turn it into a beacon for all peoples seeking emancipation and progress, just as Algeria was previously a beacon to the peoples that were under the burden of direct colonial rule. Moreover, this article also opened the appetite to other studies on other angles and aspects related to the Algerian Hirak, which definitely deserves further scientific and research attention.