Book Description
Brief illustrated presentation of the physical and political geography of Algeria.
Author : Francesca Davis DiPiazza
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 31,77 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822571447
Brief illustrated presentation of the physical and political geography of Algeria.
Author : Malek Alloula
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,13 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780719019074
Author : Olivia Burton
Publisher : Oni Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781941302569
Algeria the Beautiful explores the rich heritage and tumultuous modern history of Algeria and its connections to Europe and colonialism. Olivia had always heard stories about Algeria from her maternal grandmother, a Black Foot (a “Pied-Noir,” the French term for Christian and Jewish settlers of French Algeria who emigrated to France after the Algerian War of Independence). After her grandmother’s death, Olivia found some of her grandmother’s journals and letters describing her homeland. Now, ten years later, she resolves to travel to Algeria and experience the country for herself; she arrives alone, with her grandmother’s postcards and letters in tow, and a single phone number in her pocket of an Algerian, Djaffar, who will act as her guide. Olivia’s quest to understand her origins will bring her to face questions about heritage, history, shame, friendship, memory, nostalgia, fantasy, the nature of exile, and our unending quest to understand who we are and where we come from.
Author : Jane E. Goodman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080321362X
This is a collection of essays analyzing Pierre Bourdieu's early fieldwork in Algeria and its impact on his larger body of social theory.
Author : Alistair Horne
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 36,96 MB
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1447233433
Thoroughly sharp and honest treatment of a brutal conflict.The Algerian War (1954-1962) was a savage colonial war, killing an estimated one million Muslim Algerians and expelling the same number of European settlers from their homes. It was to cause the fall of six French prime minsters and the collapse of the Fourth Repbulic. It came close to bringing down de Gaulle and - twice - to plunging France into civil war.The story told here contains heroism and tragedy, and poses issues of enduring relevance beyond the confines of either geography or time. Horne writes with the extreme intelligence and perspicacity that are his trademarks.
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Publisher : National Museum Wales
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Documentary photography
ISBN : 072000439X
Gathers photographs of battle-scarred towns, soldiers, casualties, prisoners of war, and civilians suffering the effects of wars around the world.
Author : Elaine Mokhtefi
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,9 MB
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1788730038
A fascinating portrait of life with the Black Panthers in Algiers: a story of liberation and radical politics Following the Algerian war for independence and the defeat of France in 1962, Algiers became the liberation capital of the Third World. Elaine Mokhtefi, a young American woman immersed in the struggle and working with leaders of the Algerian Revolution, found a home here. A journalist and translator, she lived among guerrillas, revolutionaries, exiles, and visionaries, witnessing historical political formations and present at the filming of The Battle of Algiers. Mokhtefi crossed paths with some of the era’s brightest stars: Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, Timothy Leary, Ahmed Ben Bella, Jomo Kenyatta, and Eldridge Cleaver. She was instrumental in the establishment of the International Section of the Black Panther Party in Algiers and close at hand as the group became involved in intrigue, murder, and international hijackings. She traveled with the Panthers and organized Cleaver’s clandestine departure for France. Algiers, Third World Capital is an unforgettable story of an era of passion and promise.
Author : Yasmina Khadra
Publisher : Gallic Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1910477230
Award winning author Yasmina Khadra gives us a stunning panorama of life in Algeria between the two world wars. 'A writer who can understand man wherever he is' The New York Times Even as a child living hand-to-mouth in a ghetto, Turambo dreamt of a better future. So when his family find a decent home in the city of Oran anything seems possible. But colonial Algeria is no place to be ambitious for those of Arab-Berber ethnicity. Through a succession of menial jobs, the constants for Turambo are his rage at the injustice surrounding him, and a reliable left hook. This last opens the door to a boxing apprenticeship, which will ultimately offer Turambo a choice: to take his chance at sporting greatness or choose a simpler life beside the woman he loves.
Author : James McDougall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 47,33 MB
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1108165745
Covering a period of five hundred years, from the arrival of the Ottomans to the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, James McDougall presents an expansive new account of the modern history of Africa's largest country. Drawing on substantial new scholarship and over a decade of research, McDougall places Algerian society at the centre of the story, tracing the continuities and the resilience of Algeria's people and their cultures through the dramatic changes and crises that have marked the country. Whether examining the emergence of the Ottoman viceroyalty in the early modern Mediterranean, the 130 years of French colonial rule and the revolutionary war of independence, the Third World nation-building of the 1960s and 1970s, or the terrible violence of the 1990s, this book will appeal to a wide variety of readers in African and Middle Eastern history and politics, as well as those concerned with the wider affairs of the Mediterranean.
Author : Pierre Bourdieu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 23,24 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0231148437
As a soldier in the French army, Pierre Bourdieu took thousands of photographs documenting the abject conditions and suffering (as well as the resourcefulness, determination, grace, and dignity) of the Algerian people as they fought in the Algerian War (1954Ð1962). Sympathizing with those he was told to regard as Òenemies,Ó Bourdieu became deeply and permanently invested in their struggle to overthrow French rule and the debilitations of poverty. Upon realizing the inability of his education to make sense of this wartime reality, Bourdieu immediately undertook the creation of a new ethnographic-sociological science based on his experiencesÑone that became synonymous with his work over the next few decades and was capable of explaining the mechanics of French colonial aggression and the impressive, if curious, ability of the Algerians to resist it. This volume pairs 130 of BourdieuÕs photographs with key excerpts from his related writings, very few of which have been translated into English. Many of these images, luminous aesthetic objects in their own right, comment eloquently on the accompanying words even as they are commented upon by them. BourdieuÕs work set the standard for all subsequent ethnographic photography and critique. This volume also features a 2001 interview with Bourdieu, in which he speaks to his experiences in Algeria, its significance on his intellectual evolution, his role in transforming photography into a means for social inquiry, and the duty of the committed intellectual to participate in an increasingly troubled world.