Culture

Amirouche : the Chawi protest singer

En Francais
Amirouche, more rebellious than ever, mature and committed, will mark his new album with profound, actual, and rooted lyrics, marked with fights and claims, singing T’Kout the martyr, the Aures of his childhood and his children of today, running after themselves, they run toward their freedom and their re-found identity.

I will be your shadow

My step will follow close to yours
I will be your shadow, henceforth
You walk and I follow you
You sit and I fold

Boualem Sansal - Nazism and Islamism

As I pursued my research on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, I had more and more the feeling of a similarity between Nazism and the prevailing order in Algeria and in many Muslim and Arab countries. You find the same ingredients and we know how potent they are.

Ideqqi, art of Berber women

Ideqqi, art of Berber women" is the first exhibition devoted to traditional Algerian pottery. It will be held at the musée du quai Branly, in Paris, from 18th June to 17th September 2007. It will present 130 pieces, taken from the musée du Quai Branly’s reserves, illustrating the various forms and functions of pottery as well as the symbols and patterns with which the pieces are decorated.

Idir brings out his new album: France of colors

The idea allured at once the Kabylian bard who imagined the concept of an album dealing with the idea of France of all colors, while at the same time the political debate has not yet begun around the concept of the French identity promoted to the row of a ministry.

Etymology of the word “Amen”

The word “Amen” (Hebrew: אָמֵן , Arabic: آمين ) is found in three religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It is usually uttered at the end of a prayer to confirm what has been said before, meaning therefore “so be it”, “truly”, “let it be so”. But what is its origin, linguistically speaking?

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