The release of the song "El Watan El Akhbar" ("The Great Nation") seemed to capture the sentiments that were running wildly through the hearts of young people across the Arab world. Longtime rulers ...

CAIRO (Reuters Life!) - Algerian singer and guitarist Souad Massi says that by spanning two cultures, Arab and Western, she has won some new fans on both sides of the divide. Massi, 34, plays American ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Amid broad debate about French language’s place in France’s former African colonies, Algeria is denying that efforts to force Francophone private schools to adopt the country’s ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. It is hard not to be awestruck by events in Algeria over the last three weeks.

Taken together, the attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya, the Islamist attacks on Mali, and now this Algerian offense, all point to north Africa as the ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Arab leaders on Tuesday met in Algeria at the 31st summit of the largest annual Arab conference to seek common ground on divisive issues in the region. The meeting comes ...

Algerian institutions are officially abandoning French in favor of Arabic and English in their official and administrative documents and communications amid rising tensions with France. In a statement ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Amid broad debate ...