The writer's Algerian civil war novel, "Houris," challenges taboos and gives women a voice. The book has made him famous — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former Algerian defence minister Khaled Nezzar, photographed here during a 2016 press conference in Algiers,has been indicted in Switzerland - Copyright AFP/File Ranu ...

Most of today's activist class in the West either have no knowledge of — or choose to forget — one of the bloodiest internal ...

The Catholic Church on Saturday beatified in Algeria seven French monks and 12 other clergy killed during the countrys civil war, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. Jean-Paul Vesco, ...

Millions of voters elected an Islamic political party to run the country, but the military stepped in, forced out the winners of the election and handpicked a group of politicians in their place. No, ...

Switzerland’s Office of the Attorney General (OAG) announced Tuesday that it has formally charged former Algerian defense minister Khaled Nezzar in relation to war crimes and crimes against humanity ...

In modern-day Algeria an ageing Muslim priest struggles with Alzheimer’s, to the increasing concern of his faithful disciple. In the early 1990s, another man is left with amnesia following a car crash ...

If there’s one thing last week’s attack on the Algerian gas facility should tell us, it’s that the “war on terror” isn’t all that different from the “war on drugs”. Throwing money at a problem and ...