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March 2026

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hogra by Filippo Torre. Hogra (حقرة) is a word difficult to translate, generally meaning ‘humiliation’ or ‘oppression’ in the Arabic dialects of the Maghreb. It has become a strongly politicized term, an expression with a fluctuating meaning that immediately conveys a feeling of social and economic injustice shared by large segments of the Maghreb population. Today, the maḥgūr (the ‘humiliated’) is a social category with which thousands of oppressed youth on the southern shore of the Mediterranean identify, from the working classes to the middle classes.

 

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