Mohamed Boudiaf, (born June 23, 1919, M’Sila, Alg.—died June 29, 1992, Annaba). Algerian political leader, one of the founders of the r...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Sunday, April 12, 2020
Houari Boumediene
Houari Boumediene, original name Mohammed Ben Brahim Boukharrouba, (born Aug. 23, 1927, Clauzel, near Guelma, Algeria - died Dec. 2...
Ahmed Ben Bella
Ahmed Ben Bella, (born December 25, 1916, Maghnia [Marnia], Algeria—died April 11, 2012, Algiers), principal leader of the Algerian W...
Messali Hadj
Ahmed Messali Hadj, (born May 16, 1898, Tlemcen, Algeria - died June 3, 1974, Gouvieux, France), revolutionary Algerian nationalist lea...
Benyoucef Ben Khedda
Benyoucef Ben Khedda, Algerian independence leader (born Feb. 23, 1920, Berrouaghia, Alg.—died Feb. 4, 2003, Algiers, Alg.), negotiate...
Ferhat Abbas
Ferhat Abbas, in full Ferhat Mekki Abbas, (born Aug. 24, 1899, Taher, near Jijel, Alg.—died Dec. 24, 1985, Algiers), politician and...
Saturday, April 11, 2020
Pleistocene Fauna in Algeria
Land of the Homo Mauritanicus The site of Tighennif (also called Ternifine ) in Northern Algeria, well known for its Homo mauri...
The Surviving Wild Cheetahs and Leopards of Algeria
A 2005 expedition to the Ahaggar region of the Algerian Sahara collected over 40 putative carnivore scat samples and proved the existence ...
Friday, April 10, 2020
Conservative Trends of the Algerian Nationalist Movement
The growing public awareness of events in the Arab world, such as the failed Syrian Revolt against French colonialism in 1925 and...
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Algeria, Genesis of Political Nationalism
NORTH AFRICAN STAR (Etoile Nord Africaine, ENA) While the political foment in Algeria gathered pace, the movement that was th...
Algeria and the Wilsonian Moment
The Fourteen Points In the closing stages of World War I, the American president, Woodrow Wilson, unveiled a sweeping vision ...
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
French Algeria: What Was it Like for the Natives?
Although the conquest began in 1830, in terms of its basic political and economic characteristics, l’ Algérie française (Frenc...
Algeria and the Third World Project
With independence achieved in July 1962, the new République Algérienne Démocratique et Populaire (People’s Democratic Republic ...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Postcolonial Algeria, 1962-78
The creation of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria was formally proclaimed on September 25, 1962. The following day, after b...
Islam and Dynasties in Algeria
The first Arab military expeditions into the Maghrib, between 642 and 669, resulted in the spread of Islam. By 711 the Umayyads (a ...
Monday, April 6, 2020
Algeria: Political Timeline, 1954-2020
1954 - Creation of the FLN (National Liberation Front); the MTLD dissolves, superseded by the MNA. National liberation revolution be...
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