Interview: with Prof. Meziane Lasfer on Financial Markets, Algeria, and Excellence in Teaching

Inspire Magazine Spoke with Prof. Meziane Lasfer, professor of finance at Cass Business School of City University of London. Prof. Lasfer specialises in applied corporate finance including Dividend Policy, Capital Structure, Corporate Restructuring, Capital Markets, and Corporate Governance. The overall aim of the interview was to engage both specialists and non-specialists with issues relevant to Prof. Lasfer’s field of research...

Short talk at CIRTA Science competition awards ceremony

Sirus Astronomy Association organises an annual regional science outreach event where high school students compete to win prestigious prizes. Participants compete by answering a number of challenges across a couple of rounds in diverse areas, including physics, chemistry and general knowledge. This year, Sirus ran the 6th edition of the Cirta Science Competition and this year’s prize is an exciting...

On the margin of elections: The day of knowledge event in London, part 2.

Things come to a halt and priorities get disturbed – or emphasised and demystified, depending on how one looks at it – when there is an election in Algeria. Take the minister of transport Amar Ghoul, for instance. As one of the main animators of Bouteflika’s campaign for a fourth term of presidency, Ghoul finds it perfectly fine to interrupt...

Beyond Bouteflika’s fourth term candidacy

The Algerian people and their republic are about to be hijacked again. After almost two years of silence that included a stroke, two visits to Val-de-Grâce and one to Les Invalides military hospitals in France, Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his candidature for a fourth term in the upcoming presidential elections, scheduled to take place on the 17th of April 2014. “Announced”...

The 2014 Algerian Paper of the Year Awards

anasr.org launched the first edition of the Algerian Paper of the Year Awards in January 2013, a unique independent annual event that recognises and celebrates excellence in scientific publications produced by Algerian scientists and researchers inside Algeria. As is this case with other anasr.org activities (namely, the online site with its open directory of Algerian academics, scientists and researchers, and...

Algerian science meets Algerian demagogues: space science, and the myth of the written word

Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal has become an internet sensation for all the wrong reasons. His inarticulate populist ramblings have now earned the popular title of سلاليات – Sellaliates – perhaps to capture the entertaining humorous character of almost everything that comes out of his mouth. But despite our special sense of humour, the Algerian saying goes همّ يضحك و همّ...

Interview with Faculti Media

I was interviewed by Faculti Media, an academic and professional digital platform that aims “to spread [the latest research findings] quickly and successfully, making the best possible use of digital media, in ensuring the most important research, technologies and information are accessible and available to the wider public.” In the interview, I mainly talk about the research that I have...

عن أكاديمية جزائرية للعلوم و التكنوللوجيا: آفاق وتحديات

لا شك أن العلم يعد من أهم محركات التنمية الإقتصادية والإجتماعية اليوم، لذلك كان من واجب العلماء والباحثين توعية باقي شرائح المجتمع وإطلاعها عن مدى تأثير النتائج العلمية في نشاطاتهم اليومية وكيفية الاستفادة من هذه النتائج لتنمية وترقية المجتمع، على العلماء والباحثين أيضا أن يعملوا على توجيه مجهوداتهم الفكرية والعلمية نحو دراسة ومعالجة المشاكل الوطنية والدولية التي لها صلة بالتحديات...