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Algiers Books
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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as algiers)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,491,743 ratings — published 1942
Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (Caribbean and African Literature)
by (shelved 2 times as algiers)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,008 ratings — published 1980
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as algiers)
avg rating 4.02 — 327,529 ratings — published 1947
Полонянки мису Тенес (Audiobook)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.29 — 21 ratings — published
A Captive in Algiers (The Muhammad Amalfi Mysteries #1)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 4.22 — 82 ratings — published
Worlds of the Imperium (Imperium, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.65 — 503 ratings — published 1961
This Strange Eventful History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.56 — 6,069 ratings — published
A Bookshop In Algiers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.69 — 4,357 ratings — published 2017
Desert Encounter (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 4.47 — 329 ratings — published 1931
Algiers, Third World Capital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.89 — 475 ratings — published 2018
Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,410 ratings — published 1985
Alger, le cri (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.47 — 30 ratings — published
The Girls Across The Bay (Knox and Sheppard, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,172 ratings — published 2017
Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 4.14 — 494 ratings — published 1996
The Sealwoman's Gift (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,253 ratings — published 2018
The Eight (The Eight, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.93 — 47,181 ratings — published 1988
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 4.16 — 104,739 ratings — published 1942
Tomboy (European Women Writers)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.51 — 889 ratings — published 2000
Ironfire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,785 ratings — published 2004
My Battle Of Algiers: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.62 — 156 ratings — published 2006
The Majors (Brotherhood of War, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,949 ratings — published 1983
The Last Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.56 — 2,007 ratings — published 1999
Snow Kimono (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,016 ratings — published 2014
Flood Tide (Dirk Pitt, #14)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 4.05 — 21,596 ratings — published 1997
The Mysteries of Algiers (Contemporary English Language Fiction)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.83 — 58 ratings — published 1988
The Rabbi's Cat (The Rabbi's Cat, #1-3)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,277 ratings — published 2001
Dead Man's Share (An Inspector Llob Mystery)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 3.61 — 186 ratings — published 2004
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as algiers)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,581 ratings — published 1942
“The river breeze washed over him. He saw the magnificent views of the city and the bridge connecting Algiers Point to New Orleans. He marveled at the crescent shape of New Orleans as the ferry traveled nearly parallel to the curve in the Mississippi River.”
― Imogene in New Orleans
― Imogene in New Orleans
“[…] I began to see Algiers as one of the most fascinating and dramatic places on earth. In the small space of this beautiful but congested city intersected two great conflicts of the contemporary world. The first was the one between Christianity and Islam (expressed here in the clash between colonizing France and colonized Algeria). The second, which acquired a sharpness of focus immediately after the independence and departure of the French, was a conflict at the very heart of Islam, between its open, dialectical — I would even say “Mediterranean” — current and its other, inward-looking one, born of a sense of uncertainty and confusion vis-à-vis the contemporary world, guided by fundamentalists who take advantage of modern technology and organizational principles yet at the same time deem the defense of faith and custom against modernity as the condition of their own existence, their sole identity.
[…] In Algiers one speaks simply of the existence of two varieties of Islam — one, which is called the Islam of the desert, and a second, which is defined as the Islam of the river (or of the sea). The first is the religion practiced by warlike nomadic tribes struggling to survive in one of the world's most hostile environments, the Sahara. The second Islam is the faith of merchants, itinerant peddlers, people of the road and of the bazaar, for whom openness, compromise, and exchange are not only beneficial to trade, but necessary to life itself.”
― Travels with Herodotus
[…] In Algiers one speaks simply of the existence of two varieties of Islam — one, which is called the Islam of the desert, and a second, which is defined as the Islam of the river (or of the sea). The first is the religion practiced by warlike nomadic tribes struggling to survive in one of the world's most hostile environments, the Sahara. The second Islam is the faith of merchants, itinerant peddlers, people of the road and of the bazaar, for whom openness, compromise, and exchange are not only beneficial to trade, but necessary to life itself.”
― Travels with Herodotus
