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On Feb. 11, the last day before the first day of what protesters are billing as the 鈥淎lgerian Revolution,鈥� Lotfi Maamir succumbed to his burns, dying in a hospital in Douera, a suburb of Algiers.

Variously described as a father of four or a father of six, Maamir had doused himself with gasoline on Jan. 17 in a government office, decrying, it has been said, the lack of jobs, the absence of public housing.

There is a word for the underemployed and unemployed men of Algeria, explains 69热视频 political science professor Khalid Medani. They are the hittistes, men who spend their time leaning with their backs to the wall. They sit. They stand. They wait. For jobs. For housing.

And they despair.