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Dr. Ralph Ghoche joined us on November 25th, at Columbia Global Centers | Tunis for a lecture about " Erasing the Ketchaoua Mosque: Catholicism, Assimilation, and Civic identity in France and Algeria ". The lecture looked at the French policy in colonial Algeria of forcibly converting Muslim religious buildings in light of the recent debates around the building of mosques in Europe. It was focused on the case of the Ketchaoua Mosque in Algiers, seized by French officials in 1832 and rebuilt into a cathedra

Erasing the Ketchaoua Mosque: Catholicism, Assimilation, and Civic identity in France and Algeria

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