Blogs in February 2026

The End of the Sahara 17th February 2026

On an early autumn morning in 1988, on the outskirts of an Algerian city on the edge of the desert, a shepherd stumbles upon the lifeless body of Zakia Zaghouani, the stunning nightclub singer at the Sahara Hotel. Suspicion...

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The Vulcan and the Straits 3rd August 2025

Can Jox lead his squadron to victory…? Autumn, 1942 Fighter pilot, Jox McNabb has survived the desert and the second battle of El Alamein, but now No. 111 Squadron is heading into a fresh new storm. They embark on...

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A Savage War of Peace 4th December 2024

The Algerian War lasted from 1954-1962. It caused the fall of six French governments, the collapse of the fourth Republic, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died in...

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The Art of Losing 1st September 2022

Naïma has always known that her family came from Algeria – but up until now, that meant very little to her. Born and raised in France, her knowledge of that foreign country is limited to what she’s learned from...

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The stranger 26th June 2020

Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed “the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.” First published in English in 1946; now in a...

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