Culture, Society & Diaspora
Culture, Society & Diaspora
The Algerian community in the United States is one of the more understated presences within the wider Arab, Amazigh, North African, and Muslim-American landscape — small enough to escape routine headlines, yet meaningful enough to have carved out a recognisable…
When Frantz Fanon arrived at the Blida-Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in November 1953, he was not yet the canonical voice of decolonisation. He was a young Martinican psychiatrist entering one of colonial Algeria’s most overburdened and unequal institutions. What happened in…
Albert Camus was made by Algeria. Born in a small farming town, raised in a cramped flat in working-class Algiers, he carried Algerian light, poverty, and heat into everything he ever wrote. He also spent much of his career insisting…
The Algerian community in the United Kingdom is modest in size but remarkably varied in character. Shaped in part by the upheavals of the 1990s and broadened by family reunion, student mobility, entrepreneurship, and the emergence of UK-born generations, it…
Constantine did not so much build its bridges as it was compelled to. The historic core of Constantine — often described as the capital of eastern Algeria — sits on a remarkable natural fortress: a rock plateau carved on nearly…
Henna is one of the most widely recognised symbols of Algerian celebration — and one of the least understood. To see it only as body decoration is to miss most of what it does. In Algeria, the reddish-brown paste applied…