For the first time, an Algerian author has won France’s top literary award, the Goncourt, with a searing account of his country’s 1990s civil war. Kamel Daoud’s novel Houris tells of Algeria’s ...

Franco-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud is the target of two international arrest warrants issued by Algerian authorities in connection with the controversy surrounding his novel “Houris”, which won the ...

The writer, threatened with death by the Islamists in his country, narrates in 'Huríes', the latest Goncourt Prize winner, the tragic Algerian civil war through the voice of a surviving woman seeking ...

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Saada Arbane has lived without a voice since her throat was slit during the Algerian civil war. But now, the 31-year-old woman has vowed to make herself heard after she said a best-selling novel ...

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PARIS (Reuters) - Nearly 50 years after Algeria won independence from France, the unhealed wounds of the war of decolonisation keep wrenching at French society and could play a key role in the 2012 ...

Liamine Zeroual, the president of Algeria during the bloodiest phase of his country's savage civil war in the 1990s, who unexpectedly cut short his term as violence simmered, died Saturday in Algiers.

Liamine Zeroual, the president of Algeria during the bloodiest phase of his country's savage civil war in the 1990s, who unexpectedly cut short his term as violence simmered, died Saturday in Algiers.