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Politics | People &
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Country Guides & Maps
Algeria (Bradt Travel Guide)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
This new Bradt guide will be the
first to focus on the renascent Algeria and bring out the many features of this
beguiling North African country. The attraction of Algeria lies in its
fascinating mix of cultures. The towns ooze French charm with churches crowning
vine-covered hills and cafés lining the streets; however, a short trip
will bring you to a mud-brick town or Sahara oasis that echoes a muezzin’s
call and where Europe feels a world away. The guide covers fascinating UNESCO
World Heritage sites, Al Qata of Beni Hammad, Djemila, M’zab Vakkey and
the Roman sites of Timgad and Tipasa, all free from thronging crowds.
2006 Country Profile and Guide to Algeria –
National Travel Guidebook and Handbook – USAID Reports, Water Use, Law,
Energy, AGOA
(amazon.com) - USA
Electronic Book - Two CD-ROM Set by
U.S. Government (
an amazing collection of the finest federal documents
and resources about Algeria, providing encyclopedic coverage of all aspects of
the country.
Adventuring in North Africa :
The Sierra Club Travel Guide to Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and the Maltese
Islands (Sierra Club Adventure Travel Guides)
(amazon.com) - USA
by Scott Wayne
Adventuring in
North Africa guides travelers through the region's rich cultural and geographic
diversity in a vivid, backroad journey to mountain villages, isolated beaches,
and desert outposts. Visitors can choose from a multitude of adventures -- from
skiing Morocco's Atlas mountains to trekking in Algeria's Hoggar mountains to
exploring the Maltese Islands in the Mediterranean.
Algeria (Enchantment of the World)
(amazon.com) - USA
by Marlene Targ-Brill, Marlene Targ
Brill
Reading level: Ages 9-12 Discusses the geography,
history, people, and culture of this large country in northern Africa
Algeria in Pictures (Visual Geography
Series)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Publications Lerner
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Describes the topography, history, society,
economy, and governmental structure of Algeria.
Inside Algeria
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Michael Von Graffenried
Sahara Unveiled : A Journey Across the Desert
(Vintage Departures)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by William Langewiesche
Demythologizing the Desert Very, very good book about author's 1990(?) trip
from Algiers south through the Sahara desert into Niger, Mali and Senegal. He
has apparently spent a fair amount of time in Algeria and had been to much of
the Algerian desert prior to the trip he recounts in this book (actually, many
of the anecdotes he tells are from previous trips). ( a reader from Washington,
DC , April 28, 1999)
Algeria Travel
Map
(Maps Worldwide)
Published by Cartographia Series World
Travel Maps
Format Folded Map, Scale 1:1 000 000
Full colour travel
maps with place name index are produced by one of the worlds longest
established cartographers. Includes town plan of Alger, Oran and Constantine.
Algeria/Tunisia - Main Road Map 958
(Maps Worldwide)
Published by Michelin Series Main Road
Maps
Language Keys in English, French, German and Arabic languages.
Edition 1998 - Motoring and tourism map with place name index.
History & Politics
Algeria : The Fundamentalist Challenge (Conflict
and Crisis in the Post-Cold War World)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe by James Ciment
Country Review, Algeria 1999/2000
(amazon.com) - USA
by Robert C. Kelly (Editor), Debra
Ewing (Editor), Stanton Doyle (Editor), Denise Youngblood (Editor)
concise,
up-to-date sources for political and economic information
Algeria : The Next Fundamentalist State?
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Graham E. Fuller
Fundamentalism scholar Graham E. Fuller speculates on the political future of
Algeria, outlining the political and social policies an Islamist regime is
likely to enact and suggesting steps the U.S. can take to encourage a
democratic restoration in Algeria.
The First
Helicopter War : Logistics and Mobility in Algeria, 1954-1962
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Charles R. Shrader
Using recently released French official documents and a variety of other
sources, this study explains how the French Army, so recently defeated by the
Viet Minh insurgents in Indochina, was able to successfully defeat the Algerian
nationalist rebels on the battlefield, while nevertheless losing the war at the
conference table.
Between Ballots and
Bullets : Algeria's Transition from Authoritarianism
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by William B. Quandt
This
book on Algeria looks at both the erosion of the authoritarian model and the
difficulties of making a transition to democracy.
The Agony of Algeria
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Martin Stone
Examining
Algeria's history, from the founding of the Berber kingdoms, 130 years of
French rule, and the devastating war for independence - gained in 1962 - to the
present, this book makes intelligible the current crisis tearing at the fabric
of the country's society, while offering an analysis of the social, economic,
and political challenges ahead.
The Call from
Algeria : Third Worldism, Revolution, and the Turn to Islam
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Robert Malley
Brilliant
analysis of Algeria's troubling situation! At a time when more and more
postcolonial countries are leaning toward Islamic fundamentalism, this
thoroughgoing study of the situation in Algeria puts the past and present in
perspective. Recommended reading for anyone who is concerned about the future
of the Third World. (Joan Slomanson from USA , June 1, 1998)
The Islamist Challenge in Algeria : A Political
History
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Michael Willis
In
recent years, like many countries caught between the tides of fundamentalist
religion and secular culture, Algeria has been rocked by social upheaval,
protest, spasmodic violence, and terrorist activity. Middle East scholar
Michael Willis here charts the meteoric rise of one of the largest and most
powerful Islamist movements in the Muslim world
The Image of Algeria in Anglo-American Writings,
1785-1962
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Osman Bencherif
The Mediterranean Debt Crescent : Money and Power
in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Clement M. Henry
Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations : Algiers
Under French Rule
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Zeynep Celik
Analysis of
the problematic transformation of Algiers reveals the complexities and
ambivalence of the colonial condition more clearly than can be seen in other
colonial cities. Extensively illustrated with photographs, maps, and housing
plans, this pathbreaking book presents a fascinating example of colonial urban
planning.
Human Rights Abuses in Algeria
: No One Is Spared
(amazon.com) - USA
by Andrew Whitley
People & Culture
Algeria (Cultures of the World)
(amazon.com) - USA
by Falaq Kagda
The Architecture of Memory : A Jewish-Muslim
Household in Colonial Algeria, 1937-1962
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
(Cambridge Studies in Social
and Cultural Anthropology) by Joelle Bahloul
The Eloquence of Silence : Algerian Women in Question
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Marnia Lazreg (Editor),
Marina Lazreg
The Forbidden Woman :
(L'Interdite) (European Women Writers)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Malika Mokeddem, K. Melissa
Marcus (Translator)
Mokeddem's lushly written third novel tells of one
woman's rebellion against the constraints of Muslim fundamentalism in Algeria
and, through her struggle, of all Algerian women's predicament in that
inequitable society.
Imperial Identities :
Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race in Colonial Algeria (Society and
Culture in the Modern Middle East)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Patricia Lorcin
Using
colonial Algeria as the starting point of her analysis, Patricia Lorcin
explores the manner in which ethnic categories and cultural distinctions are
developed and used in society.
Men and Popular
Music in Algeria : The Social Significance of Rai (Modern Middle East
Series (Austin, Tex.), No. 20)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Marc Schade-Poulsen
North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century : The
Jews of Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Michael M. Laskier
A
political history of North African Jewry, tracing the exposure of three Third
World Jewish communities to modernization and to relations with the Muslims and
European settlers.
Unbowed : An Algerian Woman
Confronts Islamic Fundamentalism (Critical Authors & Issues)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Khalida Messaoudi, Elisabeth
Schemla, Anne C. Vila (Translator)
Other Books & Novels
Augustine and the Catechumenate
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by William Harmless
St.
Augustine (354-430) was a theologian whose views and controversies shaped the
course of Christianity in the West. He was also a struggling North African
pastor who had a flair for teaching and who meditated deeply on the
complexities of the human heart. This study examines a little-known side of
Augustine: his work as a teacher of candidates for baptism. It reconstructs the
experience of the ancient catechumenate
Women of
Algiers in Their Apartment (Caraf Books)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Assia Djebar, Clarisse Zimra
(Photographer), Marjolijn De Jager (Translator)
this collection of short
fiction by one of the leading writers of North Africa details the plight of
Algerian women and raises far-reaching issues that speak to us all
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