Algeria

Books in this genre are set in or about Algeria.

Algeria is a North African country with a Mediterranean coastline and a Saharan desert interior. Many empires have left legacies here, such as the ancient Roman ruins in seaside Tipaza. In the capital, Algiers, Ottoman landmarks like circa-1612 Ketchaoua Mosque line the hillside Casbah quarter, with its narrow alleys and stairways. The city’s Neo-Byzantine basilica Notre Dame d’Afrique dates to French colonial rule.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Algeria"

Houris
La Petite Dernière
Attaquer la terre et le soleil
Soleil amer
Les Vertueux
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
Un homme sans titre
D'amour et de guerre
عين حمورابي
La discrétion
The Stranger
The Plague
The Meursault Investigation
Ce que le jour doit à la nuit
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
A Bookshop In Algiers
L'Art de perdre
The Wretched of the Earth
Children of the New World
The Lovers of Algeria
Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (Caribbean and African Literature)
ذاكرة الجسد
The Attack
Swallows of Kabul
Idąc na rzeź by Mahmoud DowlatabadiCiała niebieskie by Jokha AlharthiKsięga zniknięcia by Ibtisam AzemHuryska by Kamel Daoud
Rahla
4 books — 1 voter
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Maghreb authors
11 books — 5 voters

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Tour d'Afrique
71 books — 21 voters



Christopher Hitchens
As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked under open skies in broad daylight by the most reactionary and vicious force in the contemporary world, a force which treats Afghans and Algerians and Egyptians far worse than it has yet been able to treat us. The vaunted CIA and FBI are asleep, at best. The working-class heroes move, without orders and at risk to their lives, to fill the moral and political vacuum. The moral idiots, meanwhile, l ...more
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Frantz Fanon
The fact is that soon we shall have had seven years of crimes in Algeria and there has not yet been a single Frenchman indicted before a French court of justice for the murder of an Algerian. [...] the native has always known that he need expect nothing from the other side!
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

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