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The Glorious Struggle of Assia Djebar
She is a symbol of the general plight of Algerian women, and has played a stellar role in the emancipation of all Algeria. Oppressed women can find solace in her words, symbolically penned under a surrogate name to placate her literate but conservative family. She has not been recognized by the Nobel Prize Committee, though she has a plethora of awards in her cupboard.
Gifts from and to Algeria and the World
Music can be a delectable form of history, after from its varied effects on our senses and moods. Folk music is the most telling of music genres, for it has its inspiration in common members of a community, unlike the classical forms which are mostly the preserves of the exceptionally gifted. The folk music of Algeria is a classic example of how art forms breathe tales of the past, because it has as many European and Asian strains in it as from its native continent of Africa.
Window to Algeria
The media in Algeria is not totally independent. Other mass media such as Television are State controlled, and draconian laws inhibit printed media. Reporting is a hazardous vocation in Algeria, and scores of journalists have been killed, allegedly by extremist groups with religious links. Newspapers in Algeria mark a day each year to protest against the situation.
The Magic of Tassili N'Ajjer
Pre-historic cave art tells us volumes about our ancestors, and about the glorious and deep past of a nation. Though Algeria is a strife-torn nation today, mired in poor governance and fundamentalism, Tassili N'Ajjer tells us of its cultural greatness, a height to which everyone would hope it will return soon. The paintings date back to more than 6 thousand years before the birth of Christ, and they depict the ecological truth of prosperous living in a desert in most remarkable form.
Albert Camus and The Plague
Albert Camus is a winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature who was born in Algeria in the year 1913. At the time of his birth in the small town of Mondovi (known as Dréan today), Algeria had been a French possession for nearly a century and the country had a well-established community of French immigrant stock who considered themselves both French and Algerian. Camus’ father fought and died for France in World War I, having enlisted in one of the Zouave battalions that drew many of their soldiers from emigrant communities in Algeria.
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