The audience are on their feet and dancing, during a jazz concert by Minneapolis U.S. Bluesman Bernard Allison in Constantine, Algeria. Young people climbed up the old marble columns of the hall for a ...

Rachid Taha, who became a rock star in France with assertive lyrics and music that melded his Algerian heritage with punk, funk and electronic beats, has died in Les Lilas, a Paris suburb. He was 59.

Born in Algeria but living in France since he was 10, Taha was always passionately outspoken in his songs both against what he saw as the West's racism and unjust wars, and the Arab world's ...

In the 1980s, Algeria experienced a tumultuous social context which reached its peak during the riots of October 88. This wave of protest, with youth as its figurehead, echoed the texts of raï singers ...

Listening to El Medioni’s work is a deep dive into the history of north African Jews over the last 150 years, long pre-dating his birth. Idir’s songs gave Kabyles a sense that their culture counted: ...