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Algerian culture has been strongly influenced by Islam. The works of the Sanusi family in pre-colonial times, and of Emir Abdelkader and Sheikh Ben Badis in colonial times, are widely known. The Latin author Apuleius was born in Madaurus (Mdaourouch), in what later became Algeria.
The building's location was previously used by a logistical branch of the French military (manutention militaire), built during the Second French Empire.[1]The municipality had previously been located, from 1850 to 1883, in the Vieux Palais of the Casbah of Algiers; [2] and from 1883 to the mid-20th century on the Algiers waterfront, now Boulevard Zighoud-Youcef [], in the former Hôtel d ...
The Casbah (Arabic: قصبة, qaṣba, meaning citadel) is the citadel of Algiers in Algeria and the traditional quarter clustered around it. In 1992, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization proclaimed Kasbah of Algiers a World Cultural Heritage Site, as "There are the remains of the citadel, old mosques and Ottoman-style palaces as well as the remains of a ...
The Ministry of Culture and Arts (Arabic: وزارة الثقافة والفنون, French: Ministère de la Culture et des Arts) is the Algerian government ministry which oversees the protection and enhancement of Algeria's cultural heritage. Its head office is in Kouba, Algiers Province. [1]
Le problème de la torture dans la France d'aujourd'hui, 1954-1961. Paris: Cahiers de la république. Henri Pouillot (2001). La villa Susini: tortures en Algérie : un appelé parle, juin 1961-mars 1962. Paris: Éditions Tirésias. ISBN 9782908527889. Henri Pouillot (2004). Mon combat contre la torture. Paris: Éditions Bouchène. ISBN ...
Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955), Rue de Ville-Evrard; École d'Alger : Alfred Chataud (1833-1908), Mauresque à la cruche; Armand Assus (1892-1977), Rue du Chêne, Le Couloir bleu, Le Port de Rotterdam, Le Narguilé, Intérieur, crayon : portrait du peintre Hacène Benaboura
The villa was not a venue for the teaching of local artists, [3] this was provided already in the École supérieure des beaux-arts d'Alger established 1843. The same model of a bursary was later imitated again with the Prix d'Indochine for painters 1920–1939, although no equivalent villa was established in Asia, artists relied on ...
The département of Alger covered an area of 54,861 km 2 (21,182 sq mi), and comprised six sub-prefectures: these were Aumale, Blida, Médéa, Miliana, Orléansville and Tizi-Ouzou. It was not until the 1950s that the Sahara was annexed into departmentalised Algeria, which explains why the département of Alger was limited to what is the north ...