Herbert, Victor
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Chas. K. Harris 1908
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: The tale of a 1943 WWII French Algerian Unit facing discrimination by its European counterparts due to prejudice and ignorance. The French armed forces are preparing to land troops in Europe to win back their homeland from the Axis Powers, but they cannot accomplish their task without recruiting men from their African colonies. The Africans themselves start their long journey full of hope and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAYZeniter, Alice
Summary: "A gripping, multigenerational tale of a French Algerian woman, her family's past, and the legacies of colonialism"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZENSummary: "The little known [fictionalized] story of a handful of Muslim agents who fought for the French Resistance, and who used the Mosque of Paris as the base for operations that included rescuing Jewish fugitives and assassinating Vichy informants." --
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: France télévisions distribution 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FREAdams, Lorraine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADASellou, Abdel.
Summary: The former pickpocket and charismatic scam artist whose friendship with a disabled French aristocrat inspired a popular motion picture recalls his youth as an Algerian immigrant in Paris and the famous friendship that would change his life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.084 SELSummary: Dramatizes the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BATWilson, Lambert
Summary: Based on a true story, eight French Christian monks choose to stay in their Muslim community in Algeria despite the growing threat of terrorism by an Islamic fundamentalist group.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN OFAdimi, Kaouther
Summary: "Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto 'by the young, for the young', discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADIImarhan (Musical group)
Contents: Indhold: Azzaman (3:59 min) -- Tamudre (4:12 min) -- Ehad wa dagh (2:38 min) -- Alwa (3:44 min) -- Imuhagh (4:50 min) -- Tumast (3:46 min) -- Tarha Nam (5:06 min) -- Tochal (3:57 min) -- Zinizjumegh (4:54 min) -- Ma S-Abok (4:12 min)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN IMAContents: Habit en ich (Rachid & Fethi) (3:56) -- Nesthel (Les Djinns) (4:48) -- Abadane (Freedom (Hourya)) (3:52) -- Wahdi (KriKri) (4:06) -- Hawajez = Barriers (Ahmed Malek) (2:49) -- A vava inouva (Idir) (4:20) -- Chenagh le blues (Les Abranis) (3:20) -- Ana ghrib (Rachid & Fethi) (5:13) -- Nadia : (instrumental) (Les Djinns) (2:10) -- N'sani n'sani (Smail Chaoui) (4:42) -- Silence des cendres (Ahmed...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014