Tassadit Yacine, an Algerian anthropologist based in France, has sparked widespread debate with a recent article defending the continued role of the French language in Algeria, describing it as a "spoils of war" rather than a colonial legacy. Yacine criticized official moves to promote English, characterizing them as a conservative attempt to cut the country off from scientific progress and modernity, and warning of "cultural annihilation." Critics have dismissed her perspective as ideologically driven and lacking analytical depth. Furthermore, she has faced scrutiny for conflating sociology with colonial ethnology in her historical assessment of educational policies, while the presence of numerous grammatical and factual errors in her article has raised questions regarding the credibility and rigor of her arguments.