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Algiers (Arabic: 196 متر, romanized: 196 mitr, lit. '196 metres') is a 2024 mystery thriller film written, scored, co-edited and directed by Chakib Taleb-Bendiab in his directorial debut. [1]
The Government Palace crowns the Boulevard Mohamed-Khemisti, a monumental perspective created in the early 20th century on former military grounds, which also includes the Grande Poste d'Alger. [4] The plaza or Forum in front of the Government Palace, formerly an open space but now closed to the public, [ 1 ] overlooks Algiers with a broad view ...
The majority in the département of Alger declared themselves to be Muslims. In the city of Alger itself, however, 296,041 or 46% of the 645,479 people counted were declared to be non-Muslims. This placed Alger second only to the city of Oran in terms of the proportion of the population stating that they were non-Moslems. Non-Moslem appears to ...
The Algiers putsch (Arabic: انقلاب 1961 في الجزائر; French: Putsch d'Alger or Coup d'État d'Alger), also known as the putsch of the generals (Putsch des généraux), was a failed coup d'état intended to force French President Charles de Gaulle not to abandon French Algeria, the resident European community and pro-French Algerians. [1]
In late 1955, [10] Ali la Pointe was introduced to Yacef Saâdi, who was the deputy of Larbi Ben M'hidi, the head of the FLN for Algiers (aka Zone autonome d'Alger (autonomous zone of Algiers) during the Algerian War. [11] Yacef Saâdi "decided to test him", trusting him with the execution of a snitch on the evening of their meeting.
Palace of the Dey (Arabic: قصر الداي), [1] [2] also known as Algiers Castle (Arabic: قلعة الجزائر), is an Ottoman era palace in the city of Algiers, Algeria.
The Battle of Algiers was inspired by the 1962 book Souvenirs de la Bataille d'Alger, an FLN military commander's account of the campaign, by Saadi Yacef. [7] Yacef wrote the book while he was held as a prisoner of the French, and it served to boost morale for the FLN and other militants.
An Algerian stripped naked and subjected to the actions of five French soldiers, who spread his legs and touch his intimate parts. The Algerian War was an armed conflict between the French Armed Forces and the Algerian National Liberation Front between the years 1954-1962 which ended with Algeria gaining independence from France.