Word: oran
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...Born in Oran, Algeria, Saint Laurent left home at 17 to work for Christian Dior in Paris. Upon Dior's death in 1957, Saint Laurent took over the fabled French couture house and, at only 21, garnered worldwide attention for his revolutionary first collection of short swingy trapeze dresses. The day after his Dior debut, French newspaper headlines claimed that Saint Laurent had "saved France...
...Tweaking accepted conceptions of musical and cultural identity has been a Taha trademark for more than 20 years. He's focused on merging the influences of his native Algeria with the European idioms he encountered after emigrating to France when he was 10. A native of Oran, a culturally rich northwestern port city, Taha came of age displaced from his Algerian roots but without being accepted by French society either. In 1980, after a series of drudge jobs, including a stint in a heater factory, Taha hooked up with a quartet - three of whom were fellow ethnic Arabs...
...stunned and totally shocked by it," said Oran Young, an environmental studies professor and friend of both victims. "Most people here have felt that it's a safe community and something like this couldn't happen...