Algeria Tamazight: Dzayer, ; French: Algrie), officially People's

Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Tamaza or Maghreb region of

North Africa on the Mediterranean coast. Its capital and most populous city is
Algiers. With a total area of 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), Algeria
is the tenth-largest country in the world, and the largest in Africa and in the
Mediterranean.
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The country is bordered in the northeast by Tunisia, in the east
by Libya, in the west by Morocco, in the southwest by Western Sahara,
Mauritania, and Mali, in the southeast by Niger, and in the north by the
Mediterranean Sea.
Culture


Modern Algerian literature, split between Arabic, Tamazight and French, has been
strongly influenced by the country's recent history. Famous novelists of the 20th
century include Mohammed Dib, Albert Camus, Kateb Yacine and Ahlam
Mosteghanemi while Assia Djebar is widely translated. Among the important
novelists of the 1980s were Rachid Mimouni, later vice-president of Amnesty
International, and Tahar Djaout, murdered by an Islamist group in 1993 for his
secularist views.
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Algeria Tradition

Covered from head to toe in white, their faces partly masked by embroidered triangular cloths,
Algerian women marched through the capital Thursday to defend their traditional Islamic dress.
"We want to sweep away these clothes which come from Saudi Arabia, black, sad and stifling
under the sun, to return to our traditional 'haik' which is the pride of Algerian women," said one,
posing in front of the landmark central post office in Algiers.
The procession, part of a workshop organised by art student Souad, gathered around 30 participants at
the foot of the Casbah, not far from the post office, where they all cheerfully re

A national landmark: The Sanctuary of the Martyr
STONE CRUSHER MACHINE