What are some customs in Algeria?

Answer 1

Culture

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Modern Algerian literature, split between Arabic and French, has been strongly influenced by the country's recent history. List_of_Algerian_writersof the twentieth century include Mohammed_Dib, Albert_Camus, and Kateb_Yacine, while Assia_Djebaris widely translated. Among the important novelists of the 1980s were Rachid_Mimouni, later vice-president of Amnesty International, and Tahar_Djaout, murdered by an Islamistgroup in 1993 for his secularist views.http://wiki.answers.com/l%20cite_note-19 In philosophy and the humanities, Jacques_Derrida, the father of Deconstruction, was born in El_Biarin Algiers; Malek_Bennabiand Frantz_Fanonare noted for their thoughts on Decolonization; Augustine_of_Hippowas born in Tagaste(modern-day Souk_Ahras); and Ibn_Khaldun, though born in Tunis, wrote the Muqaddimawhile staying in Algeria. Algerian culture has been strongly influenced by Islam_in_Algeria, the main religion. The works of the Sanusifamily in pre-colonial times, and of Emir Abdelkaderand Sheikh Ben_Badissin colonial times, are widely noted. The Latin author Apuleiuswas born in Madaurus(Mdaourouch), in what later became Algeria.

The Music_of_Algeriagenre best known abroad is Raï, a pop-flavored, opinionated take on Folk Music, featuring international stars such as Khaled_(musician) and Cheb_Mami. However, in Algeria itself the older, highly verbal Chaabistyle remains more popular, with such stars as http://wiki.answers.com/w/index.php?title=El_Hadj_El_Anka&action=edit&redlink=1, http://wiki.answers.com/w/index.php?title=Dahmane_El_Harrachi&action=edit&redlink=1and El_Hachemi_Guerouabi, while the tuneful melodies of Kabylemusic, exemplified by Idir, Ait_Menguellet, or Lounès_Matoub, have a wide audience. For more classical tastes, Andalusian_classical_music, brought from Al-Andalusby Moriscoorefugees, is preserved in many older coastal towns.

Although is welcomed and praised as a glowing cultural emblem for Algeria, there was time when raï's come across critical cultural and political conflictions with Islamic and government policies and practices, post-independency. Thus the distribution and expression of raï music became very difficult. However, "then the government abruptly reversed its position in mid-1985. In part this was due to the lobbying of a former liberation army officer turned Pop Music impresario, Colonel Snoussi, who hoped to profit from raï if it could be mainstreamed." In addition, given both nations' relations, Algerian government was pleased with the music's growing popularity in France. Although the music is ore widely accepted on the political level, it still faces severe conflictions with the populace of Islamic faith in Algeria.

In painting, and http://wiki.answers.com/w/index.php?title=M'Hamed_Issiakhem&action=edit&redlink=1have been notable in recent years.

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ledarius Davis