Culture, Society & Diaspora
Culture, Society & Diaspora
There is a French word that many people in France recognise, that no census has ever counted, and that many of the people it describes increasingly decline to use. The word is beur. It belongs less to demography than to…
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…
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…
In the heart of Soho, at 52 Old Compton Street, a crimson-red shopfront has stood for nearly 140 years. Behind its original 19th-century wooden fascia lies Algerian Coffee Stores, founded in 1887 by an Algerian immigrant known as Mr Hassan.…
Every summer, a remarkable phenomenon unfolds across Algeria as hundreds of thousands of expatriates make their way back to their homeland. This isn’t simply tourism—it’s a deeply rooted cultural practice that speaks to the enduring bonds between Algeria and its…