Books

Among The Hill Folk Of Algeria is a travelogue written by M. W. Hilton-Simpson, first published in 1921.

Unless one is Algerian or has the privilege of an Algerian acquaintance, the opportunity to savor genuine Algerian dishes may have eluded them.

A radically singular voice in the world of literature, Assia Djebar's work ultimately reaches beyond the particulars of Algeria to embrace, in stark yet sensuous language, universal themes

A best seller in France, The Lovers of Algeria is an unflinchingly candid story about a country where terrorism and government corruption are commonplace.

Leïla Marouane establishes herself as an original and talented chronicler of modern man's maladies and taboos.

Nedjma is a masterpiece of North African writing.

Alice Zeniter’s The Art of Losing is a powerful, moving family novel that spans three generations across seventy years and two shores of the Mediterranean Sea

First published in 1961, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a masterful and timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle

Behind the subterfuge, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life.