Algiers

Books in this genre are set in or about Algiers.

Algiers is the capital city of Algeria, on the country’s Mediterranean coast. It’s known for the whitewashed buildings of the Kasbah, a medina with steep winding streets, Ottoman palaces and a ruined citadel. The 17th-century Ketchaoua Mosque is flanked by 2 large minarets. The Great Mosque has marble columns and arches. The clifftop Catholic basilica of Notre-Dame d'Afrique features a large silver dome and mosaics.
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The Stranger
This Strange Eventful History
Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (Caribbean and African Literature)
The Plague
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A Captive in Algiers (The Muhammad Amalfi Mysteries #1)
Worlds of the Imperium (Imperium, #1)
A Bookshop In Algiers
Desert Encounter
Algiers, Third World Capital
Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
Alger, le cri
The Girls Across The Bay (Knox and Sheppard, #1)
Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert
The Sealwoman's Gift
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War History Non Fiction
11 books — 4 voters
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Centers of Civilization series
34 books — 3 voters


Charles Lavigerie
Mission work in Algeria is far from being the chief, still less it is the exclusive object of your ambition. The end and aim of our Apostolate is the evangelisation of Africa, of the whole of Africa, of that almost impenetrable interior in whose dark depths are the last hiding places of a most brutal barbarism, where cannibalism still prevails, and slavery in its most degrading forms. To this work you have consecrated yourselves by solemn vow and promise. There is not a single spot along the sho ...more
Charles Lavigerie

Benarrioua Aniss
Raise my astral body to the space And may the angels take me to higher plains To the density where poets are gods, Where my poems won’t be in vain Look at the cities from up high And see how bright Algiers can shine ; To tell myself that, you, where you are, You are the most sparkling light.
Benarrioua Aniss, Sins of Algiers

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