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2 main cities in Algeria
- Algiers*
- Oran
Main populations of Algeria
- Arab-Berber
- Sunni Muslim
Shari'a

The dominant law, Family law
Original inhabitants of Algeria

Berbers
1962 (Algeria)

Independance from France
Current political system in Algeria

Republic
Algeria January 2011

Unemployment, high food prices, need for political reforms
What is Algeria music?
- ra'y music
- expresses point of view, opinion
Ra'y music is a genre of?

Mixture of Western, arabic, and african
Kateb Yacine
- wrote literature in French
- reflects influence of the colonial era
La Repudation
- Rashid Gadra
- strongly criticized womens inferior status
- focusses on changes in arab muslim family
- consquence of the divorce
Architecture and Casba
- sybol of resistance
- colonial architecture
- algiers -oldest city
Algiers is known as Algeria the white. Why?

Colonial style buildings

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Algeria

Updated

2012-04-08T18:18:08Z