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 ...

Cairo Egypt July 05 2013: The anti-Morsi protestors with the soldiers on top of the armored vehicles drive through the 6th October Bridge. The Cairo clashes abated, at least temporarily, after a half ...

The writer, threatened with death by the Islamists in his country, narrates in 'Huríes', the latest Goncourt Prize winner, the tragic Algerian civil war through the voice of a surviving woman seeking ...

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 ...