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Chrea – Spectacular Skiing in Algeria
Both the small towns of Chrea and Blida are located approximately seventy kilometers outside of Algiers, Algeria. Not many visitors to Algeria are even aware of this magnificent part of the country. Even though Chrea is mostly known as a ski area and nature reserve, it has also played a role in the literary and revolutionary history of Algeria. Revolutionary author and essayist, Frantz Fanon, was extremely fond of Chrea. His writings and literary works were the inspiration behind anti-colonial liberation movements.
Unique Club Sounds of DJ Cheb i Sabbah
World renowned DJ Cheb i Sabbah was born in Algeria and moved to Paris, France, in the early 1960s. He began exploring his talent and love for music when he started spinning discs in Paris in 1964, soon bringing his unique sound to the attention of the music world. Heavily influenced by his Berber, Jewish and Algerian heritage and with an appreciation for a wide variety of music genres, Cheb i Sabbah continues to break the mould of the stereo-typical club DJs.
Algeria’s Rural Renewal Program
Following a successful pilot phase, which concluded in 2007, the Algerian government has approved a program aimed at revitalizing the country’s rural areas, which are home to more than 13 million Algerians, making up about 40% of the population. Although the Rural Renewal Program (PRR) focuses on agriculture, it will also include projects relating to commerce, tourism, culture, crafts, fishing, education, the environment, industry and new technologies, with the goal of fuelling dynamic, sustainable growth.
Six Algerian Boxers Going to Olympics
Beijing was named the host city for the 2008 Olympics on 13 July 2001. For years now, renovations to heritage sites, monuments and attractions have been underway, in anticipation of the thousands of visitors who will come to Beijing between the 8th and the 24th of August 2008 during the Olympic Games. Athletes from all over the world, and their supporters, will be flocking to the city to lend their support to their countries, and Algeria will be represented by no less than six boxers in the Olympic boxing ring.
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