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.

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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
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
Ce que le jour doit à la nuit
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
Swallows of Kabul
The Attack

Frantz Fanon
Because it is a systematic negation of the other person and a furious determination to deny the other person all attributes of humanity, colonialism forces the people it dominates to ask themselves the question constantly: "In reality, who am I?" The defensive attitudes created by this violent bringing together of the colonised man and the colonial system form themselves into a structures which then reveals the colonised personality. This 'sensitivity' is easily understood if we simply study and ...more
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

Benarrioua Aniss
Codolyc 30 mg And the cops come out of the woodwork We hide in the holes we call home Catch us if you can And I hear la voix de ville humming in my head And I see the sirens of the seven villes moving ahead To come and greet the connoisseur of paths Me I say « Bravo» and «Long live death»
Benarrioua Aniss, Sins of Algiers

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