Abstracts of Ph.D theses on Algeria presented at British Universities, 2002 to 2017

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The Maghreb Review, Vol. 44, 1, 2019 © The Maghreb Review 2019 This publication is printed on FSC Mix paper from responsible sources ABSTRACTS OF PH.D THESES ON ALGERIA PRESENTED AT BRITISH UNIVERSITIES, 2002 TO 2017 CURATED AND EDITED BY MOHAMED BEN-MADANI EDITORIAL NOTE Our earlier abstracts of English language theses on Algeria, 1945-2001, were published in Volume 26, Numbers 2-4, 2001, which included Ph.D theses presented in US and Canadian Universities. Similarly Abstracts of English Language Theses on Morocco 1928-2000, Volume 26, Numbers 2-4, 2001; 2001-2012, Volume 38, No. 2, 2013; 20122013 , Volume 39, Number 4, 2014, pp 482-500; 2014, Volume 40, Number 4, 2015, pp. 515-519; 2015-2016, Volume 42, Number 4, 2017, pp. 461-472; and Abstracts of English Language Theses on Libya, 1936-2012, Volume 41, Number 1, 2016 and 2013-2015, Volume 43, Number 3, 2018. These volumes are still available and can be ordered through our website: www.maghrebreview.com. We shall continue to publish supplements of Abstracts of Theses on Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia in future issues of The Maghreb Review. These abstracts have not been included in any bibliographical work in the past and are arranged in Alphabetical order by author. FOREIGN NEWS IN COLONIAL ALGERIA, 1881-1940, PH.D, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 2016, ASSERAF, ARTHUR This thesis looks at how news shaped people’s relationship to the world in Algeria under French rule. This territory operated under an uncertain legal status that made it both a part of France and a colony, and within it lived a society divided between European settlers and Muslim natives. Accounts of recent events helped Algerians determine what was domestic and what was foreign in a place where those two notions were highly contested. Colonialism did not close Algeria off from the world or open it up, instead it created a particular geography. In a series of case-studies taken from across Algeria, this thesis investigates a wide range of types of news: manuscripts, rumours, wire dispatches, newspapers, illustrations, songs, newsreels, and radio broadcasts. It focuses on the period in which Algeria’s legal status as part of France was most certain, from the end of the conquest and the consolidation of Republican rule in the 1880s to the outbreak of the Second World War. In this period, authorities thought the influence of outside events on Algeria was a bigger threat than disturbances within. Because of this, state surveillance produced reports to monitor foreign news, and these form the backbone of this study. But ABSTRACTS OF PH.D THESES ON ALGERIA, 2002 TO 2017 113 state attempts to manage the flow of news had unintended effects. Instead of establishing effective censorship, authorities ended up spreading news and making it more politically sensitive. Settlers, supposedly the state’s allies, proved highly disruptive to state attempts to control the flow of information. Through a social history of information in a settler colonial society, this research reconsiders the relationship between changes in media and people’s sense of community. From the telegraph to the radio, new technologies worked to divide colonial society rather than tying it together, and the same medium could lead to divergent senses of community. BANK COST AND ALTERNATIVE PROFIT EFFICIENCY IN ALGERIA, MOROCCO AND TUNISIA OVER THE PERIOD 1994-2001, PH.D, UNIVERSITY OF WALES, BANGOR, 2004 BAKHOUCHE, ABDERAZAK This thesis examines the cost and alternative profit efficiency of a sample of Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian banks over the financial liberalisation period 1994-2001. The translog functional form and intermediation approach are employed in this study to derive inefficiency estimates as well as scale economies levels and scale inefficiencies estimates. The results show that inefficiencies are substantial in the three banking systems under study, with an average of 29% of cost inefficiency and 32% of alternative profit inefficiency. Scale economies and scale inefficiencies are also found to be not negligible at an average level of 46% and 9%, respectively, with a negative relationship between assets size class and scale economies and scale inefficiencies estimates. The analysis also principally reveals that; first, Moroccan and Tunisian banks are more cost efficient than their counterparts in Algeria, secondly...