algeria

"The national soccer teams of Algeria and Egypt have a rivalry spanning decades. What made the teams fierce competitors? How are both country's fans involved in keeping this rivalry going? Easy-to-read text and fantastic images make these books an obvious choice for the soccer-obsessed reluctant or struggling reader"--Provided by publisher.

Examines the reform experienced by Muslim countries, discussing the processes, the cultural ideas and practices.

Because of Yosef's devotion to honoring the Sabbath, he is given special protection by a great lion during a dangerous journey through the desert.

A largely autobiographical novel whose protagonist represents Algerian women throughout the country's modern history, from the French capture of Algiers in 1830 to the War of Independence in the mid-twentieth century, embodying their sensuality, their suffering, and their strength.

Caught in the grip of forces he does not understand, a quiet, unassuming clerk commits murder in Algeria.

Examines the internal conflict that has been raging in Algeria since the early 1990s between Islamic militants and government security forces, looking at the scriptural and historical roots of both Islamic and secular Algerian thought, and analyzing the various issues the parties to the conflict are fighting over.

In 1880 the French government ordered a surveying expedition for a railway that would bring the fabulous wealth of Timbuktu in French Sudan to Paris. The expedition was a fiasco. Under-armed in hostile territory, native guides led the one-hundred man expedition into an ambush that stranded them without camels or supplies in the deserts of southern Algeria. Only a dozen malnourished men lived to tell their tale.