English articles

• Algeria’s Energy Growth

  According to reports last received, Algeria has over 12 billion barrels of proven oil reserves. Exploration over the past few years has led to the discovery of more oilfields and the proven oil ...

• Liberating Women through Handicraft Promotion

  Economic independence is a proven route to the emancipation of women. It is especially valuable for those whose circumstances do not allow a complete education. A steady flow of income builds ...

• The Notre Dame of Africa

  The Cathedral of Notre Dame d’Afrique stands high above the city of Algiers, overlooking the sea. A mixture of Roman and Byzantine styles of architecture, with Moorish influences, it is a ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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, ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• The Hilton Oasis of Algiers

  Rub your eyes, for this is neither Florida, nor the Caribbean! You are just minutes from the center of Algiers, in the country which you thought was all desert and strife! The Hilton in Algiers ...

• Renewal of the Algiers Casbah

  A “Casbah”, in its traditional meaning, is the center of a city, usually walled in and fortified to some extent. As such, the Casbahs of cities and towns stretching from Morocco in the west to ...