“After 30 years of an intellectual adventure, Liberté is finished,” announced the Francophone Algerian newspaper on 14 April in its last printed copy following the decision of its owner, the wealthy businessman Issad Rebrab, to liquidate it. In Algeria, the end of Liberté is far from just a metaphorical farewell from a struggling newspaper to its millions of readers across the country. It’s also the end of an era through which the independent daily had survived some of the darkest periods in Algeria’s history, a country where freedom of speech has always been held at gunpoint. “We are at a tip…

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