Rachid Mekhloufi was more than a football star, he was a symbol of Algerian resistance: The death of football star Rachid Mekhloufi at the age of 88 has marked the end of an era. For more than half a century, he was an integral part of Algeria’s football landscape, becoming one of the country’s most …
Women in translation month: a moving Algerian novel tracks the economic struggles of writers and publishers: French-Algerian publisher Edmond Charlot is the subject of the Algerian writer Kaouther Adimi’s third novel, and her first to be translated into English. It was published in 2020 under the US title Our Riches and retitled A Bookshop in …
Idir: how a song from the village took Algerian music to the world: David Wolff-Patrick/WireImage/Getty Images In the 1990s I had the good fortune to meet with the late Algerian singing star Idir (Hamid Cheriet 1949-2020). We chatted for several hours in a café outside the Berber Cultural Association in Paris. I was doing research …