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Tag: Algeria

4 September, 2023 • TMR

World Picks: Festival Arabesques in Montpellier

The largest festival of Arab and North African music takes place each year in Montpellier: Arabesques is quite the two-week extravaganza.

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2 July, 2023 • Abdellah Taïa

“Nadira of Tlemcen”—fiction from Abdellah Taïa

Sometimes you have to escape everything you know in order to become yourself.

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4 June, 2023 • Rose Issa

Garden of Africa: Interview with Rachid Koraïchi

Rose Issa talks to the Algerian artist about his Garden of Africa and other garden projects that honor the history and memories of the dead.

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29 May, 2023 • Rana Asfour

Cruising the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair

TMR's managing editor, Rana Asfour, checks out one of the world's largest book events looking for literary mana.

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20 February, 2023 • Melissa Chemam

A new series in France, Raï Is Not Dead, Celebrates the Genre

Melissa Chemam attends the première of the new French music series on Arte TV at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris.

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12 December, 2022 • Pierre Daum

The Contemporary Art Scene in Algiers (Fragments)

Pierre Daum, a correspondent for Le Monde Diplomatique, goes in search of Algerian artists in Algiers.

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12 December, 2022 • Laëtitia Soula

French-Algerian Artist Djamel Tatah’s Solitary Crowds

Laëtitia Soula caught the opening of Djamel Tatah's extravagant show at the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, where she spoke with the artist.

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15 October, 2022 • Laëtitia Soula

On Women and Gods: How Three Female Clerics Came Together

Laëtitia Soula talks to an imam, a pastor and a rabbi, all women, who sat down to write a book together melding feminism and religion.

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5 October, 2022 • Jordan Elgrably

44th CINEMED fest to Fête Simone Bitton & Abdellatif Kéchiche

Montpellier's venerable Mediterranean film festival announces retrospectives and avant-premières.

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19 September, 2022 • Melissa Chemam

Vocalist Samira Brahmia Bridges France and Algeria with Love

For her 11th TMR music column, Melissa Chemam interviews the Algerian-French diva Samira Brahmia.

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25 July, 2022 • Fouad Mami

Independent Algeria 60 Years Later: The Untold Story

Algerian critic Fouad Mami parses his nation's history and independence from France, on Algeria's 60th anniversary.

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11 July, 2022 • Pierre Daum

Abd el Kader at the Mucem: a colonial vision of the Emir

Pierre Daum opines that despite a French museum's best effort, an exhibit on Algeria and France can't escape its colonial bias.

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6 June, 2022 • Oliver Gloag

Algeria and Albert Camus

Oliver Gloag explores the conflicted Algerian and French identity of Albert Camus, reviewing his later novels, stories and statements.

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24 January, 2022 • Melissa Chemam

Rachid Taha and the Sway of Chaabi & Raï on Franco-Arab Rock

This month, TMR's music critic, Melissa Chemam, stumbles upon an unexpected exhibit of the history and influence of raï, chaabi and "Beur" politics on the French body politic.

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15 August, 2021 • Aomar Boum

Why COMIX? An Emerging Medium of Writing the Middle East and North Africa

TMR’s guest editor Aomar Boum admires the growing movement of political cartooning in North Africa and the Middle East.

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