Algerian Culture

The spoken word has kept a key component of Algeria's social mosaic alive for generations, but now technology is stepping in to do the heavy lifting

The district has welcomed Arab immigrants for decades. A crossroads of cultures, smelling and tasting of home, it is also a special place in the lives of Algerian singers Warda and Rachid Taha.

A contentious cultural and political issue can often be oversimplified with crude arguments, but the question of languages and identities is much more nuanced.

Best known to the Arab world for a novel translated from French, this Algerian visionary playwright thought that true poetry came from chaos