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
The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people are no longer respectable people; they are nothing more than flesh eating animals, jackals and vultures which wallow in the people's blood. ...more
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

Mouloud Benzadi
حبُّ الوطنِ شُعورٌ رَاسخٌ في النفسْ، لا يشوبُهُ عكرٌ أو دنسْ، هو شيئٌ من ذَاتي، وجزءٌ من حَياتي، وسيظلُّ حاضِرا في كتابَتي، في غُرْبتي، حتى مَمَاتي.
Mouloud Benzadi

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