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Sidi Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Azhari
Although ANOTHER TOMB IN ALGIERS is a work of fiction, many of the characters and events are drawn from history. A few years ago the National Library in Algiers celebrated
Iceland and Algiers
Many have the impression of Algiers before the French made it a colony in the third decade of the nineteenth century and subjected its people to all manner of suffering
A Captive Economy
A recent publication by a distinguished professor of History, Daniel Hershenzon, brings into focus how “In the early modern western Mediterranean, a wide range of individuals, networks, and institutions
Charles Mace
Charles Mace and his wife figure significantly in several of the novels, and was in fact the British Consul General in Algiers for several years. I hope that the liberties
First Impressions… from the Sea
The setting for The Muhammad Amalfi Mysteries is Algiers in the final decades of the Ottoman Regency. Like Camus who yearned for a future in which the city he loved
