Algeria Through Time
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Modern Algeria

β€œStatesmen, thinkers, poets and artists of a free nation.”

37 figures1 eras5 regions

Statesmen, thinkers, poets and artists of a free nation.

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Ibn Khaldun
14th century
Mouloud Feraoun
20th century (1913–1962)
Assia Djebar
20th–21st century (1936–2015)
Idir
20th–21st century (1949–2020)
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14th century

Ibn Khaldun

Maghreb / Intellectual history
20th century (1913–1962)

Mouloud Feraoun

Kabylie
20th–21st century (1936–2015)

Assia Djebar

National / Algeria-wide
20th–21st century (1949–2020)

Idir

Kabylie
20th century (1956–1998)

Lounès Matoub

Kabylie
1919–1992

Mohamed Boudiaf

National / Algeria-wide
1916–2012

Ahmed Ben Bella

Western Algeria
1932–1978

Houari Boumédiène

Constantine
1926–2015

Hocine AΓ―t Ahmed

Kabylie
1929–1989

Kateb Yacine

Constantine
1917–1989

Mouloud Mammeri

Kabylie
1920–2003

Mohammed Dib

Western Algeria
1927–1978

Malek Haddad

Constantine
c. 1910–2002

Cheikh El Hasnaoui

Kabylie
1907–1978

El Hadj M'Hamed El Anka

Algiers
1939–2012

Warda al-Jazairia

National / Algeria-wide
Born 1960

Cheb Khaled

Western Algeria
Born 1949

Tassadit Yacine

Kabylie
Voice of Memory and Identity (born 1950)

Lounis AΓ―t Menguellet

Kabylie
Poet of the Nation (1908–1977)

Moufdi Zakaria

Sahara
Architect of a Plural Algeria (early 20th century)

Amar Imache

Kabylie
1889–1940

Abdelhamid Ben Badis

Constantine
1905–1973

Malek Bennabi

Constantine
Film director & urban storyteller

Merzak Allouache

Algiers
Film director of memory and independence

Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina

National / Algeria-wide
Film director of diaspora and memory

Rachid Bouchareb

Algeria / Diaspora
Actor-director and storyteller

Lyes Salem

National / Algeria-wide
Contemporary film director

Karim Moussaoui

National / Algeria-wide
Film director and editor

Yamina Bachir-Chouikh

Algiers
Film director of women and society

Djamila Sahraoui

National / Algeria-wide
Documentary filmmaker and cultural organizer

Habiba Djahnine

Kabylie
Experimental film director

Narimane Mari

Algiers
Rebel Voice of Algerian Music

Rachid Taha

Kabylie
Voice of Kabyle Oral Memory

Taos Amrouche

Kabylie
Writer, Broadcaster, and Voice of Algerian Consciousness

Jean Amrouche

Kabylie
Mother of Memory

Fadhma AΓ―t Mansour Amrouche

Kabylie
Voices Across Generations

The Amrouche Family, A Family of Memory

Kabylie
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