Languages are still a source of conflict in the former French colonies of the Maghrib. Despite official commitments to Arabic as a language of education and international communication, French remains an important presence, and neither written language has succeeded in displacing the regional dialectal Arabic and Tamazight (Berber) as the idioms of home and street. Only in Algeria, however, have these linguistic differences arrayed themselves along the political and economic fault lines of an increasingly disrupted society to become, in themselves, incitements to violence. These Algerian linguistic battles, which Djamila Saadi-Mokrane aptly describes as “linguicide,” are the focus of the essays in Anne-Emmanuelle Berger's intelligently compiled collection.