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The Corsairs and Captives Blog
Professor Adam Nichols of the University of Maryland manages a truly informative blog, http://corsairsandcaptivesblog.com/ in which he has poured a lifetime of scholarship on the subject of North African history
Historical Sources in An Affair in Algiers
In An Affair of Honor, Chief Commissioner Muhammad is ordered by the Dey of Algiers to perform several distasteful tasks. In addition, Muhammad undertakes on his own to perform a
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
