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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as algiers)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,508,364 ratings — published 1942
Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (Caribbean and African Literature)
by (shelved 2 times as algiers)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,014 ratings — published 1980
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as algiers)
avg rating 4.02 — 330,100 ratings — published 1947
Полонянки мису Тенес (Audiobook)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.29 — 21 ratings — published
A Captive in Algiers (The Muhammad Amalfi Mysteries #1)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 4.22 — 82 ratings — published
Worlds of the Imperium (Imperium, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.66 — 506 ratings — published 1961
This Strange Eventful History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.56 — 6,123 ratings — published
A Bookshop In Algiers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.69 — 4,398 ratings — published 2017
Desert Encounter (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 4.47 — 332 ratings — published 1931
Algiers, Third World Capital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.89 — 477 ratings — published 2018
Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,413 ratings — published 1985
Alger, le cri (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.47 — 32 ratings — published
The Girls Across The Bay (Knox and Sheppard, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,178 ratings — published 2017
Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 4.14 — 495 ratings — published 1996
The Sealwoman's Gift (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,287 ratings — published 2018
The Eight (The Eight, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.93 — 47,292 ratings — published 1988
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 4.16 — 106,571 ratings — published 1942
Tomboy (European Women Writers)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.51 — 890 ratings — published 2000
Ironfire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,793 ratings — published 2004
My Battle Of Algiers: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.62 — 158 ratings — published 2006
The Majors (Brotherhood of War, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,958 ratings — published 1983
The Last Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.55 — 2,010 ratings — published 1999
Snow Kimono (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,016 ratings — published 2014
Flood Tide (Dirk Pitt, #14)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 4.05 — 21,639 ratings — published 1997
The Mysteries of Algiers (Contemporary English Language Fiction)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.81 — 59 ratings — published 1988
The Rabbi's Cat (The Rabbi's Cat, #1-3)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,283 ratings — published 2001
Dead Man's Share (An Inspector Llob Mystery)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.62 — 189 ratings — published 2004
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,746 ratings — published 1942
“Just as the Mediterranean separated France from the country Algiers, so did the Mississippi separate New Orleans proper from Algiers Point. The neighborhood had a strange mix. It looked seedier and more laid-back all at the same time. Many artists lived on the peninsula, with greenery everywhere and the most beautiful and exotic plants. The French influence was heavy in Algiers, as if the air above the water had carried as much ambience as it could across to the little neighborhood. There were more dilapidated buildings in the community, but Jackson and Buddy passed homes with completely manicured properties, too, and wild ferns growing out of baskets on the porches, as if they were a part of the architecture. Many of the buildings had rich, ornamental detail, wood trim hand-carved by craftsmen and artisans years ago. The community almost had the look of an ailing beach town on some forgotten coast.”
― Imogene in New Orleans
― Imogene in New Orleans
“[…] I began to see Algiers as one of the most fascinating and dramatic places on earth. In the small space of this beautiful but congested city intersected two great conflicts of the contemporary world. The first was the one between Christianity and Islam (expressed here in the clash between colonizing France and colonized Algeria). The second, which acquired a sharpness of focus immediately after the independence and departure of the French, was a conflict at the very heart of Islam, between its open, dialectical — I would even say “Mediterranean” — current and its other, inward-looking one, born of a sense of uncertainty and confusion vis-à-vis the contemporary world, guided by fundamentalists who take advantage of modern technology and organizational principles yet at the same time deem the defense of faith and custom against modernity as the condition of their own existence, their sole identity.
[…] In Algiers one speaks simply of the existence of two varieties of Islam — one, which is called the Islam of the desert, and a second, which is defined as the Islam of the river (or of the sea). The first is the religion practiced by warlike nomadic tribes struggling to survive in one of the world's most hostile environments, the Sahara. The second Islam is the faith of merchants, itinerant peddlers, people of the road and of the bazaar, for whom openness, compromise, and exchange are not only beneficial to trade, but necessary to life itself.”
― Travels with Herodotus
[…] In Algiers one speaks simply of the existence of two varieties of Islam — one, which is called the Islam of the desert, and a second, which is defined as the Islam of the river (or of the sea). The first is the religion practiced by warlike nomadic tribes struggling to survive in one of the world's most hostile environments, the Sahara. The second Islam is the faith of merchants, itinerant peddlers, people of the road and of the bazaar, for whom openness, compromise, and exchange are not only beneficial to trade, but necessary to life itself.”
― Travels with Herodotus
