In the first of a short series of articles in Variety’s UniFrance Rendez-vous Dailies on directors and French productions pushing the boundaries of freedom in the Arab world, Variety talks to ...

Cheikha Rimitti helped put raï music on the map–a cool, groovy style that originated in the Algerian port city of Oran in the 1920s, a mix of Bedouin folk music, French, Spanish, African and Arabic ...

Algerian Berbers marked their New Year as a public holiday Friday with feasts, dancing and horse parades, a first for the North Africa region where indigenous peoples have long suffered ...

Folk songs and folk dance music. Chiefly, Arabic words. Program notes by Peter Throckmorton on container. Performer(s): Performed by Algerian folk musicians. From the heights of our mountains.--The ...

Global Surprises provide DSS visitors the opportunity to experience some of the most colourful and exciting cultural shows from around the world, in addition to activities aimed at educating children ...

Actor-director Salem talks about his second directorial outing, ‘The Man From Oran,’ a corrective to the official history of post-independence Algeria Buoyed by the spirit of the Arab spring, best ...