Elizabeth Perego is an assistant professor of history at Appalachian State University.
The cover of Aomar Boum and Nadjib Berber’s book “Undersirables.”A 2002 political cartoon by Nadjib Berber sharply criticizing IMF policies in Algeria. The man in the suit says, “With the IMF, my motto is… if the Algerians don’t want to drop their pants, they have to tighten their belts.” To which the other man replies, “The problem is we have neither one nor the other.” Courtesy of Susan Slyomovics.
