Culture, Society & Diaspora
Culture, Society & Diaspora
More than a thousand years before Algeria existed as a nation, a mobilisation that began in its mountains changed the course of Middle Eastern history. In 969 CE, a Fatimid army crossed North Africa and conquered Egypt, establishing a new…
A few kilometres from the ruins of ancient Tiddis, a fortified settlement perched above the gorges of the Khreneg in what is now north-eastern Algeria, a cylindrical stone monument has stood for nearly two millennia. Known as the mausoleum of…
In the spring of 1843, tens of thousands of people — families, artisans, merchants and soldiers — moved across the high plains of Algeria. They travelled with their herds, their workshops, their treasury and their administration. They were not simply…
In the 11th century, the westward migration of Arab tribes from Egypt helped transform North Africa in ways that would be felt for centuries. Political power shifted, Arabic spread into new regions, and relationships between communities changed. At the centre…
The Five Years That Made Cervantes: How Algiers Forged the Author of Don Quixote, published here in April, has been shortlisted for Editorial Content of the Year at the PPA Independent Publisher Awards 2026. The awards are organised by the…
By the end of the 1960s, Algiers had earned an epithet that few cities could claim. Amílcar Cabral, the Guinea-Bissauan revolutionary and leader of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), is said to have…