We invite our readers to check
out the following sites. Please note, however, that inclusion
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Newstand (includes
newspapers, search engines, databases)
Africa
News Online: Algeria Regular updates
on Algeria.
Algerian Connection
Growing list of sites on Algeria.
Algerian
Press Service (APS) Official
news on Algeria. Includes English translations
of some articles.
ArabNet:
Algeria Great source. Loads of information
on Algeria.
ArabNet:
Algeria, Business, Economy
Djazair-Online
In French. Lots of Algerian-related links.
Dogpile: a search engine with loads of links to Algerian
news, etc.
El Khabar Independent newspaper (in Arabic).
El Mudjahid
Algerian state newspaper (French)
El
Watan Probably the most widely-read
independent newspaper of Algeria (in French).
Horizons Independent Algerian newspaper (in French).
INCORE: Conflict Data Service: Internet Country Guides:
Algeria. Database of "unique, relevant and preferably substantive
content relating to ethnicity and/or conflict."
La
Nation Independent Algerian newspaper,
out of print since December 1997.
La Tribune
Algerian independent newspaper (in French).
La
Tribune, National News Section Specific
page for news on Algeria.
Le Jeune Indépendant
In French.
Le Matin Independent Algerian newspaper. Includes regional
news on Kabylia, Oran, etc. (in French).
Le Soir d'Algerie Still under construction (in French).
Liberté Independent Algerian newspaper (in French).
Ouest
Tribune Independent Algerian
newspaper (in French).
Quotidien d'Oran Algerian paper from the west (in French).
World
Press Extensive web guide to newspapers
around the world.
Yahoo!
Full Coverage - Algeria Offers many
links to news on Algeria.
AMAZIGH
SITES
ACAA
Association in America The Amazigh
Cultural Association in America, Inc., is a non-profit organization
registered in the state of New Jersey, organized and operated
exclusively for cultural, educational, and scientific purposes
to contribute to saving, promoting, and enriching the Amazigh
language and culture.
Africa
Internacional No. 19. Not an Amazigh-originated
site, but deals with Amazigh history in the Maghreb and current
Amazigh-related issues, including an article on the Tuareg, Amazigh-Islamist
"contest" in Algeria and Morocco, and several articles
on the Amazigh woman. In Spanish.
Association AZAmazigh
Azourlili
Amazigh music, films, poems, communications,
and photos.
Brahim's
HomePage, "dedicated to Algeria
and it's people." Check out, in particular, "Imazighen
in the Political Elite," a historical
accounting of the important role of the Amazigh in the Revolution.
Mouvement
culturel berbère
Tankra
Tamazight: La Renaissance Amazigh.
Deals with the language, literature, and movement.
Tamazight
(répertoire de sites amazighs)
ALGERIAN-AMERICAN
ASSOCIATIONS
AAANE
Algerian-American Association of New England.
Relief organization. Site includes a newsletter, news on Algeria,
message boards, links, etc.
AAA Texas
Algerian American Association of Texas.
Algerian American
Association of Houston (AAA-H). New
site, with some areas still under construction. Regular and upcoming
activities are posted. Includes chatroom.
Algerian American
Association of Northern California Non-profit
apolitical organization with the purpose of providing an environment
to preserve and promote the Algerian heritage within the American
fabric. It also aims at strengthening ties of friendship and
cooperation between the United States and Algeria.
M3A
Metropolitan Association of Algerian Americans.
EMBASSIES, CONSULATES
& MISSIONS
Algerian Embassy
London. Includes visa, travel, and
services information.
Algeria
Embassy in the U.S. Not an official
site. Offers contact information only, but it is not current,
though most information is still pertinent.
HITEC: Algerian Embassy in Portugal. In Portuguese.
Mission
Permanente de la République Algérienne Démocratique
et Populaire auprès de l'Office des Nations Unies et des
Organisations Internationales en Suisse.
Permanent Mission of Algeria to the United Nations in Switzerland.
Permanent
Mission of Algeria to the United Nations in the USA.
Offered in English and French. Includes VISA
applications that can be printed off the web.
OFFICIAL
SITES OF RECOGNIZED POLITICAL PARTIES
NOTE: Any unofficial
sites for these parties, or non-recognized Algerian parties are
listed under "Other Sites on Political Parties" below.
Front
des Forces Socialistes (FFS). Socialist
Forces Front.
Harakat Moudjtamaa
As-Silm (HMS). Mouvement de la société
pour la paix. Movement of the Society for Peace.
Rassemblement pour la
Culture et la democratie (RCD). Rally
for Culture and Democracy.
OTHER SITES
ON POLITICAL PARTIES
This section includes parties
not recognized officially, as well as unofficial sites of legal
parties.
Front des Forces Socialistes
(FFS). Socialist Forces Front.
Front Islamique du
Salut (FIS). Islamic Salvation Front.
Front
Islamique du Salut. Another site for
the Islamic Salvation Front, offered in Arabic and French.
Harakat
Moudjtamaa As-Silm (HMS, unofficial
site of the Movement of the Society for Peace). Includes communiqués and press conferences
and summary of HMS program in English and French.
La page non-officiel
de fraternite, journal du PT Algerien.
Unofficial page of the Algerian Worker's Party. In French.
HUMAN RIGHTS
ORGANIZATIONS
Algeria
Watch Non-governmental organization
engaged in the defense of human rights in Algeria. Site is in
German and French. Not associated with AWI.
Algeria
Watch International AWI is a non-governmental, non-partisan, non-profit, devoted
to creating greater awareness around the world of the conflict
in Algeria.
American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee The
ADC is a grassroots, civil rights organization committed to defending
the rights of people of Arab descent and promoting their rich
cultural heritage.
Amnesty
International: Algeria 1997 report
on Algeria and its human rights situation.
Amnesty International
The AI's home page. Amnesty International reports
on human rights violations around the world are reported virtually
every day of the week, attempting to sort fact from fiction.
The Center for Strategic
and International Studies A public
policy research institution dedicated to policy analysis and
impact.
Committee to Protect Journalists.
Documents the conditions of press freedom in
117 countries, including Algeria.
COSDAL. Site for the Committee for Support of Democracy and
Freedoms in Algeria (Comité de soutien à la Démocratie
et aux libertés en Algérie), a politically, institutionally,
and religiously independent organization in defense of democracy,
movements of women, intellectuals, artists and journalists, the
union, human rights organizations, and cultural and linguistic
pluralism. In French.
FIDH -
International Federation of Human Rights Leagues.
La première organisation internationale
de défense des droits de l'Homme à s'être
constituée, en 1922.
Hijra International
Organization. ONG de défense
des Droits de l'homme, d'aide aux victimes de la répression
et des requérants d'asile en provenance du monde Musulmans
notament du Maghreb (NGO for the defense of Human Rights, which
helps victims of repression and asylum seekers from the Muslim
world, notably the Maghreb). Site offers information in French
and English.
Human Rights Watch
The HRW investigates and exposes human rights
violations.
International
Federation of Human Rights Leagues. English
version of above. The FIDH is the first international organization
to defend human rights since 1922. It's headquarters is in France.
The National Democratic
Institute for International Affairs.
Calls on a global network of volunteer experts and provides practical
assistance to civic and political leaders advancing democratic
values, practices and institutions. NDI works with democrats
in every region of the world to build political and civic organizations.
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
EU Cooperation
with Mediterranean Countries/La coopération
de l'UE avec les pays méditerranéens.
Ghardàya.
From the Organization of World Heritage Cities
(OWHC). Offered in English, French, and Spanish.
Les Lions
Algeriens. Site of the Algerian Lions
Club.
MEOC
(Middle East Outreach Council). This is a "must-see"
for serious students and teachers of any country in the Middle
East and North Africa. The site includes a list of websites with
contact information from universities across the country (USA)
that have Outreach programs. Although these programs are geared
toward helping teachers of K-12 grade, the Outreach directors
are a valuable resource for students of any level seeking information
on the pertinent countries.
Mouvement
Écologique Algérien (AEM), created
and legalized in August 1989 for the purpose of promoting scientifically
established measures able to link development to the protection
of environment in a bid to improve durably the quality of life.
Offered in English and French.
 Naql
El Ilm Project. This project is dedicated
to helping scientists and engineers inside and outside Algeria
improve on the existing telecommunication infrastructure in Algeria.
Information offered in English and in French.
NGO
Voice. Voluntary Organizations in
Cooperation in Emergencies within the Liaison Committee of NGDOs
to the European Union. See #2, Lobbying, about Algérie
Libertés.
Portal
of the Human Universe Organization
with the goal to improve the materialistic, mental, cultural,
and spiritual quality of human life all over the world.
UNEVOC
Directory: Algeria. UNEVOC
is UNESCO's International Project on Technical and Vocational
Education, dedicated to developing and improving technical and
vocational education in the latter's Member States. Its focus
is on information exchange, networking and international co-operation.
This site offers contact information for the Ministry of Education
and National Institute of Vocational Education.
ALGERIAN
ANTHEM, DICTIONARIES, RECIPIES, AND CLOTHES
Also see Personal Websites below. Many offer recipes,
music, poetry, etc.
Algerian
Dardja-English Dictionary.
Algerian
National Anthem. Words of the anthem
are written in Arabic transliteration (Roman letters), the original
French, and English translation.
La cuisine algérienne.
While the title means "Algerian cuisine,"
this site has more than recipies, though it has plenty of those,
too. There is a section on demographic information on Algeria,
a discussion forum, a jukebox, links to French newspapers, and
much more. Presently in French only, but an English section is
expected in the near future.
La
Mode Algerienne Women's clothes from
Algeria.
Recipes
from the Middle East and North Africa New
section in ArabicNews.com's website.
BACKGROUND
INFO ON ALGERIA
The sites listed below offer a hodgepodge of information--from
archaeological and historical to political and touristy--some
of which are particularly good for high school students or others
who have no knowledge of Algeria and need to start with the basics.
Other sites may be useful to more advanced researchers as they
contain statistical information or important historical documents.
AdmiNet: Algeria,
many resource links and contact information for
Algerian embassy in France.
Algeria
This site offers loads of information, but
unfortunately has not been updated since 1997. It is useful for
background information on Algeria, including US policy toward
the country.
Algeria. Sections to check out is Books and Periodicals, which
list bibliographical information on Algeria.
Algeria:
History. Includes a few historical
documents.
Algerie
Flash: Documentation. Lists articles
(French and English) on Algeria found on the internet. Site was
last updated in 1996. An interesting footnote on this site is
that it was created by Michael Connor, a fourth-year Honors student
in French as part of his Bachelor of Arts degree, and the research,
focusing on political problems encountered in Algeria, was based
on reports produced by an "internet author," an expatriate
Algerian who regularly contributed to the various lists and discussion
groups about the country.
An MBendi Profile:
Algeria Country Profile
The
Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: The
Barbary Treaties. Includes full document signed between the United
States and the Bey of Algiers in 1810 (in English), as well as
other 18th and 19th century documents.
Biography
of Judge Mohammed Bedjaoui, Member
of the Court since March 19, 1982 and its President from 1994
to 1997. Information is current.
Dossier
Algérie: les acteurs. Short
bios of those who have been or are in power, as well as the opposition.
Also includes a description of the various political parties
and the two largest armed groups (AIS and GIA). In French.
Elections
in Algeria. Detailed stats on 1995
and 1997 elections.
Governorat du Grand Alger: Information focused principally on the city of Algiers.
In French, English, and Arabic. Offers historical background,
geography, demographics, tourist and cultural information.
Les
Cahiers de l'Orient. This site covers
the main texts from two special publications (36/37 and 39/40),
published in 1995. Also includes complete text from San Egidio
meeting. In French.
L'Histoire
du Peuple Algerien. The History of
the Algerian people in pictures. Offers photos of early Algerian
leaders, nationalists, and political incidents.
Miftah
Shamali- Algeria. Packed with information.
Details on many of Algeria's cities, as well as archaeological
sites. Includes possible pertinent tourist information (last
updated in May 1997).
ONS: Office
National des Statistiques. National Office of Statistics, offered in French and Arabic.
The English version is under construction.
The First Server
for Algeria From Algiers. Offers information
on tourism, business, culture, history, etc. on Algeria. Written
in Arabic, English and French.
The
St. Egidio Platform for a Peaceful Solution of the Algerian Crisis.
Site of USIP (United States Institute of Peace).
BUSINESS, EDUCATION,
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Air
Algérie. List of the airline
company's fleet, as of July 4, 1998. For reference only. Information
based on the publication, Aviation Letter. Not an official
site.
Algebio:
L'association des Biologistes Algériens.
Articles on science, technology, and education.
Bank of
Algeria. In French. Includes legislative
and regulamentary information, as well as a list of banks, financial
establishments, and bureaus of liaison.
Djillali Liabès
University Home Page. Site for university
in Sidi Bel-Abbes. In French.
Naql
El Ilm Project. This project is dedicated
to helping scientists and engineers inside and outside Algeria
improve on the existing telecommunication infrastructure in Algeria.
Information offered in English and in French.
Revue
d'information scientifique et technique bi-annual
review of technical and scientific information, in French.
Sonatrach, Algeria's state-owned oil and gas company.
Université des
sciences et de la technologie d'oran. University
of Oran site, in French.
LITERATURE,
ART, AND MUSIC
Algeria.
This site is under construction, but presently
contains a list of artists and poets from Algeria, along with
a short bio of each.
Algerian
Music: Includes Ait-Menguellet, Alla,
Cheb Kader, Cheb Mami, Cheikha Remitti, Ferhat, Gerouabi El Hachemi,
Idir, Khaled, Matoub Lounes, and many others.
A
Celebration of Women Writers: Algeria. The
site is dedicated to female writers from around the world, this
particular page dedicated to female Algerian writers. No information,
however, on the writers is available yet on the site, but it
may improve in time.
Francophone
Literature An Introduction to the
Francophone Literature of Algeria with illustrations by Maghrebi
artists. Also includes biographies of Algerian writers.
"La main
de FATMA" de l’auteur aquarelliste:
Ilham Mendjeli. Site in French. Includes six thematic series
of paintings by the Algerian artist, Ilham Mendjeli.
The
Memory of Resistance. Site about the
book by Martin Evans, published in 1997, on French Opposition
to the Algerian War (1954-1962). Includes a chronology of Algerian
highlights from 1830-1962, the list of questions asked in interviews
for the book, list of those interviewed, the preface, the bibliography,
a review, and a link to order the book.
Wled El Bahdja. Focuses on Algeria's capital, Algiers. Presents
general information about Algiers and its people's interests.
Audio jokes and proverbs. Algerian popular music and its artists.
Photos, message board, and Algiers greeting cards.
ORAN
Since there are several sites listed here on Oran, we've
grouped them together for the convenience of the reader. Other
cities of interest will also be categorized separately as links
become available for them. Please send us these specialized sites:
waac@waac.org.
Algeria-Oran
Homepage. Personal homepage of Anwar
Berrouayel. Includes photos of Oran and historical photos of
Algeria, and covers all aspects of the arts, including information
on Algerian films with accompanying photos, music, literature,
theatre, and painting.
Oran-Algeria/Algérie-Wahran
Personal website of Mohamed Sahnoun from Paris,
in English. Offers information on the city of Oran, Algerian
music, Paris, caligraphy, and various other topics. Written with
affection and humor. Site includes a chatroom.
Welcome
to Oran, Algeria Home page for Mohamed
Sahnoun's personal site.
Wled Wahran's Site Anything and everything on Oran: photos, raï
music, art, technology, sports, news, chatroom, forum, etc.
PERSONAL WEBSITES
AND MISC.
Algerian
Bird Stamps.
Algeria
Currency Gallery. Currency from 1962
to the present.
Algeria
Page Page from the Center for Middle
Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin.
Ashkoun?: Bita's personal home page. Filled with humor, the
site also includes Algerian music, photos, poetry, and more.
Algeria
Banknotes - Billets d'Algérie.
In French and English.
Boualem
Mouloua's Homepage 13-year old, originally
from Algiers, has created a site that offers the personal, as
well as links to Amazigh sites, pictures of several cities in
Algeria, and music.
Comite
pour une Algérie forte et digne aux USA (Committee
for a Strong and Dignified Algeria in the USA). In English and
French.
Dalila's
Personal Algerian website: Includes
poetry, Recipes, and women in music.
Job-Seek, Le Site Algériens de demandes d'emploi: Offres,
Recrutement, Formation, CV-Online.
Karim's Website. Personal site. Includes aerial photo of Algeria,
as well as other photos; Algerian music by the band, Andalucia,
based in Washington, DC; cultural information, etc.
M'zab
Valley. New site, with sections still
under construction. Includes the Algerian National Anthem in
Latin script, as well as links to Algerian newspapers. Site in
English and Arabic. Will include profiles on Muslim scholars
(ulema), as well.
The
Noureddine Morceli Home Page: for
sports lovers. Morceli is an Algerian middle distance runner
who has won several world championships.
The Ultimate
Guide to North African Anthropology.
The web-site contains anthropological resources for Algeria,
Morocco, and Tunisia, including information on archaeology, education,
organizations, geography, news, and anthropology.
TOTW
- Algeria. List team names, stadium
and capacity.
Useful Algerian
Links A new site, offering links to
news information and cultural sites. Also provides the names,
e-mail addresses, and web page information for Algerians around
the world.
Window
On Algeria Offers many personal contributions
about, and many useful links to Algeria.
Wled El Bahdja. Focuses on Algeria's capital, Algiers. Presents
general information about Algiers and its people's interests.
Audio jokes and proverbs. Algerian popular music and its artists.
Photos, message board, and Algiers greeting cards.
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