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Ya Biladi
2 days ago
- Politics
- Ya Biladi
Algerian Minister sparks controversy, accuses Morocco of «stealing» couscous heritage
Algeria's Minister of Communication, Mohamed Meziane, has reignited the long-running debate over the origins of couscous. Speaking before the House of Representatives yesterday, he accused «the western neighbor» of «stealing» the iconic traditional dish from Algeria. According to Meziane, «all ancient historians agree that couscous, along with its utensils, first appeared in Algeria», though he offered no evidence to support the claim. He also refrained from naming the author of what he described as an «important study» from «the beginning of the last century» that allegedly proves Algeria's national ownership of couscous. He simply noted that the study was written by a «French historian». «This is just one example among many other products whose ownership has been unfairly attributed to the western neighbor», he said. Meziane also claimed, in front of the deputies, that Morocco «took advantage of the black decade (1992–2000) to appropriate symbols of Algerian heritage, including music and architecture». For context, couscous was officially recognized by UNESCO as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2020, following a joint submission by Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, and Tunisia. Mohamed Meziane was appointed Minister of Communication in November 2024, replacing Mohamed Laâgab, who held the post for just 13 months.
Ya Biladi
2 days ago
- Politics
- Ya Biladi
Algerian Minister sparks controversy, accuses Morocco of «stealing» couscous heritage
Algeria's Minister of Communication, Mohamed Meziane, has reignited the long-running debate over the origins of couscous. Speaking before the House of Representatives yesterday, he accused «the western neighbor» of «stealing» the iconic traditional dish from Algeria. According to Meziane, «all ancient historians agree that couscous, along with its utensils, first appeared in Algeria», though he offered no evidence to support the claim. He also refrained from naming the author of what he described as an «important study» from «the beginning of the last century» that allegedly proves Algeria's national ownership of couscous. He simply noted that the study was written by a «French historian». «This is just one example among many other products whose ownership has been unfairly attributed to the western neighbor», he said. Meziane also claimed, in front of the deputies, that Morocco «took advantage of the black decade (1992–2000) to appropriate symbols of Algerian heritage, including music and architecture». For context, couscous was officially recognized by UNESCO as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2020, following a joint submission by Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, and Tunisia. Mohamed Meziane was appointed Minister of Communication in November 2024, replacing Mohamed Laâgab, who held the post for just 13 months.
El Chorouk
17-02-2025
- Politics
- El Chorouk
A Franco-Moroccan War Against Algeria Fueled By Algorithms
The media war against Algeria is taking on serious dimensions in terms of its size, tools, methods and objectives, based on the principle of sowing doubt and uncertainty in everything that is official, whether in terms of reports by authorities or statements by officials, in a parallel line to the use of the 'Goebbels theory' that adopts rumor, spreading lies, propaganda, fabricating events and situations in order to direct local, regional and international public opinion away from the truth, by employing all media components, whether traditional, digital or social networks, to achieve confusion among the recipients of these messages. But confusion is only effective when a portion of the local elite is polarized and made to spin the rumor. The best example of this focused attack on Algeria is the response of some of these elites to the number of 9,000 journalists that Minister of Communication Mohamed Meziane recently announced to academic elites at a lecture at the University of Algiers. The same parties picked up the minister's message, in which he shed light through 'digital symbolism' on the media campaigns against Algeria, through accurate and logical data, through which he exposed the secrets of the multinational media brigades recruited by evil axes to distort everything that is Algerian, through a torrent of false, misleading and fabricated news, using right-wing media outlets known for their hostility to Algeria as launch pads, as well as the official media of a neighboring country, which cannot be blinded by any observer to its more intense and fabricated campaigns. These parties have sought to question the number of journalists recruited in the war against Algeria, although a reading of the Mediterranean media landscape and a simple follow-up gives us a clearer picture of the reality of the numbers. In France alone, the committee that grants the professional journalist card presented 34,444 journalist cards in 2023, including 2156 journalists who received them for the first time. According to French investigations, the year 2020 saw 59,600 people registered as journalism practitioners. These figures show the size and weight of the human element in the French media, most of whose platforms are controlled by the Zionist French right. Apart from that, what any website researcher can discover when accessing search engines and following Algerian news is that the first result is the appearance of Moroccan websites as preferential selections while dealing with Algerian files; an indicator of the battle being waged in the world of algorithms that give preference to misleading articles about Algeria. The facts have also proven in recent years that dozens of newsrooms in Europe and the Gulf are dominated by the French-Makhzenazan media lobby, which is involved in a disgusting world of bribes, blackmail and the dissemination of anti-Algerian rhetoric. The story of Rachid Mbarki of the French channel BFM and Moroccan Abdessamad Nasser, who was fired from Al Jazeera, are two examples of this. This is without talking about the involvement of more than 3,000 Moroccan journalists in disinformation campaigns against Algeria on a direct and daily basis. It seems that Minister Mohamed Meziane has said very little about this huge and very dangerous file, in which all methods of media dirt and meanness are used to fight Algeria; the almost daily appearance of an Algerian hashtag, but from Morocco, is enough to prove this. The campaign to question the size and strength of the attacks targeting Algeria actually serves the propaganda machine based in France, Morocco and the Zionist entity. A simple search by typing the word Algeria in two or three languages is enough to get a flood of articles, videos and posts about Algeria, but their source is not Algeria, but the previous hosting platforms.
