Arabic is the language of 73 % of Algeria's population ; in addition to this, non-native speakers learn Arabic at school, and as such the majority of the population understands Standard Arabic or the Algerian Arabic dialect.

The Algerian government taught English as the secondary mandatory foreign language for students beginning in the fourth grade in the middle school cycle, from the end of the 1970s to the early 1990s.

Massinissa Guermah ( 1983, Beni Douala, Tizi Ouzou Province-20 April 2001 ) was a 19-year-old Kabyle ( Berber ) high school student arrested by Algerian gendarmes on 18 April 2001.

He was born at Paris, passed through the École polytechnique and the school of Metz, and distinguished himself as an artillery officer in Algerian warfare, becoming colonel in 1852.

The latter went on a campaign of reforming the Algerian school and its educational system.

Taking advantage of liberalization by the unpopular ruling leftist / nationalist FLN regime, it used its preaching to advocate the establishment of a legal system following Sharia law, education in Arabic rather than French, and gender segregation, with women staying home to alleviate the high rate of unemployment among young Algerian men.

New highway construction near Aïn Turk-part of the east-west Algerian HighwayThere are 71, 656 kilometers of paved roads including 640 kilometers of expressways and 32, 344 kilometers of unpaved roads for a total road system of 104, 000 kilometers.

After being structured as a politicized " people's army " in the Boumédiène era, and retaining its allegiance to the FLN during the single-party years of Algerian history, the military forces were formally depoliticized in 1988, as a multi-party system was introduced.

Absurdism as a belief system was born of the European existentialist movement that ensued, specifically when the French Algerian philosopher and writer Albert Camus rejected certain aspects from that philosophical line of thought and published his essay The Myth of Sisyphus.

* Bas Saharan Basin, an Artesian aquifer system which covers most of the Algerian and Tunisian Sahara and extends to Morocco and Libya

Rival political organizations were permitted, after the Algerian Constitution was amended to allow a multiparty system and democracy.

During all periods of Algerian post-colonial history, except for a few years c: a 1990-96, the FLN has been a pillar of the political system, and has primarily been viewed as a " pro-system " party.

Since the breakdown of the single-party system and its detachment from the state structure in c: a 1988-1990, the FLN has been in favor of multi-party democracy, whereas before that, it upheld itself as the only organization representing the Algerian people.

During the Algerian War of Independence, the FLN adopted an organizational system divided by 6 numbered wilayas:

The Bas Saharan Basin () is an artesian aquifer system which covers most of the Algerian and Tunisian Sahara and extends to Morocco and Libya, enclosing the whole of the Grand Erg Oriental.

In Algeria, as elsewhere, spoken Arabic differs very substantially from written Arabic ; Algerian Arabic has a much-simplified vowel system, a substantially changed vocabulary and has dropped the case endings of the written language.

In 1968, the Algerian government introduced a policy of Arabization in the education system.

The most famous work of Algerian cinema is probably that of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Chronicle of the Years of Fire, which won the palme d ' Or at the Cannes film festival in the year 1975.

Currently Algerian cinema is in a phase of restructuring ; the French-wing is taking the lead over the Algerian one, and many film production are written in French rather than Algerian arabic.

As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.

Currently, a part of Algerian writers tends to be defined in a literature of shocking expression, due to the terrorism that occurred during the 1990s, the other party is defined in a different style of literature who staged an individualistic conception of the human adventure.

Algerian music is a perfect reflection of the cultural diversity that characterizes the country, music directories are distinguished by a profusion of several styles.

Chaâbi music is a typically Algerian musical genre that was derived from the Andalusian music during the 1920s.

The style is characterized by specific rhythms and of Qacidate ( Popular poems ) in Arabic dialect that are long poems from the Algerian heritage.

Andalusian so-called Algerian classical music is a musical style that was reported in Algeria by Andalusian refugees who fled the inquisition of the Christian Kings from the 11th century, it will develop considerably in the cities of the North of the Algeria.

Souad Massi is a becoming famous Algerian singer of traditional songs.

Algerian cuisine is rich and diverse.

The Algerian pastry also contains Tunisian or French cakes and it is marketed.

La Peste ) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague.

Some notable operations include: the Chadian – Libyan conflict in 1969 – 72 ( the first time that the Foreign Legion was sent in operations after the Algerian War ), 1978 – 79, and 1983 – 87 ; Kolwezi in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May 1978 ; Rwanda in 1990 – 94 ; and the Côte d ' Ivoire ( the Ivory Coast ) in 2002 to the present.

but if granting self-determination to the Algerian rebels entails sweeping that area into the Sino-Soviet orbit, then Algerian freedom must be postponed.

Morocco eventually sent a large portion of its combat forces into Western Sahara to confront the Polisario ’ s forces, which were relatively small but well-equipped, highly mobile, and resourceful, using Algerian bases for quick strikes against targets deep inside Morocco and Mauritania as well as for operations in Western Sahara.

* The Great Synagogue of Oran, Algeria, built in 1880, but converted into a mosque after Algerian independence when all Algerian Jews were driven into exile.

The violence lasted several hours, including lynching and acts of torture in public places in all areas of Oran by civilians supported by the ALN — the armed wing of the FLN, at the time evolving into the Algerian Army — resulting in 3, 000 missing people:

The war involved a large number of rival movements which fought against each other at different moments, such as on the independence side, when the National Liberation Front ( FLN ) fought viciously against the Algerian National Movement ( MNA ) in Algeria and in the Café Wars on the French mainland ; on the pro-French side, during its final months, when the conflict evolved into a civil war between pro-French hardliners in Algeria and supporters of General Charles de Gaulle.

Despite complaints from the military command in Algiers, the French government was reluctant for many months to admit that the Algerian situation was out of control and that what was viewed officially as a pacification operation had developed into a major war.

Drafted into the French Army, he volunteered for special duty in the Algerian War as a parachutist / commando.

* Algérie ( Algeria ), once similar to Tunis, but incorporated directly into the French Republic, got its only High commissioner on 19 March 1962: Christian Fouchet ( b. 1911 – d. 1974 ), until its 3 July 1962 independence from France ( Algerian State ; 25 September 1962 People's Democratic Algerian Republic ruled by the FLN, the former armed revolt )

They were formerly considered to be one species, but are now normally split into three and comprise a superspecies along with the Krüper's and Algerian Nuthatch.

Bowles commented Bowles traveled alone into the Algerian Sahara to work on the novel.

The plot follows three Americans, Port, his wife Kit and their friend, Tunner, as they journey through the Algerian desert, culminating in the death of one ( Port ) and the descent into madness of another ( Kit ).

For two years, according to Martini, Italian and Algerian secret services worked together in order, on one hand, to avoid the growing destabilisation of Tunisia spilling over into Algeria, and on the other hand to control pro-Palestinian activities in Italy.

The FLN did for pragmatic reasons absorb Communist activists into its ranks during the War of Independence, but refused to allow them to organize separately after the war, and quickly moved to dissolve the pro-Moscow Algerian Communist Party ( PCA ).

The radio controls malfunctioned and with nothing to guide it the SM. 79 drone cruised along until it ran out of fuel and crashed into Mount Khenchela on the Algerian mainland.

Hadj was born in 1898 into an Algerian family of Turkish origin.

Zouabri presided over the decline of the GIA, as it moved into a stage of increasingly mindless violence and alienation from Algerian society.

After being conscripted into the army during the Algerian war of independence, Virilio studied phenomenology with Maurice Merleau-Ponty at the Sorbonne.

His studies were interrupted when he was conscripted into the army, in which he served for 28 months ( longer than usual because of the Algerian War ).

Algerian Arabic is part of the Maghrebi Arabic dialect continuum, and fades into Moroccan Arabic and Tunisian Arabic along the respective borders.