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...Sahara Man: Travelling with the Tuareg (John Murray; 274 pages), British anthropologist Jeremy Keenan returns to that land of lusty mountains, his first visit to Algeria in three decades. In the 1960s, he lived in the camps of the blue-veiled tribesmen, immersed in their language and culture. He studied the people intensely?"as academic subjects," he now says, "not as human beings"?before leaving to tell the world. His academic ambitions and the region's politics prevented his return. It wasn't until 1999 that this man, who still considers himself a Tuareg expert, realized that he couldn...
...Under pressure from international mediators, rebel ethnic Albanian fighters, who had occupied the area around Tetovo, north of the capital Skopje, began to withdraw as Albanian politicians agreed to meet government representatives. Thousands of civilians had quit the town earlier in the week as rebel and government forces clashed. ALGERIA Blood in the Sand In one of the bloodiest periods in a long-running insurgency by Islamic extremists, 90 people have been killed in the past month. In one incident last week three generations - grandmother, mother, teenagers and young children - of the Merabet family were murdered at a holiday resort...
...ALGERIA Protests Banned The government banned all demonstrations in Algiers following violent clashes during a pro-democracy protest. Since a student was killed in police custody in April, frequent Berber demonstrations against police brutality, unemployment and poor social conditions have left some 90 people dead. In a separate incident, Islamic insurgents killed at least 13 soldiers...
During his thirty one years working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),Kane has lived in Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Senegal, Algeria, and most-recently Portugal, his only non-Muslim post. After returning to private life in Portugal, Kane acted as a security adviser to the Portugese government, which resulted in a knighthood of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator...
...Cleopatra Selene-Cleopatra's daughter by Mark Antony and the twin of her second son, Alexander Helios-is identified as the subject of a rare marble portrait statue found in Cherchel, Algeria. On loan from that city's Archaeological Museum, the statue has never been outside Algeria before. Cherchel was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Mauretania, restored by Augustus to Cleopatra Selene's husband, Juba II. Another marble rendering of Cleopatra Selene, found near Juba's palace at Cherchel, shows her as a more mature woman, with a heavier face and "snail-shell" curls around her forehead...