La belle revue - 2022 – Oran and Algiers

—» Introduction Global Terroir: Oran and Algiers
by Katia Porro

In 2015, La belle revue initiated our column “Global Terroir” with the desire to highlight the artistic scene of a foreign territory situated beyond the major capitals, to address the…

—» Algiers Haunts...
by Amina Menia

“Algiers has never stopped changing throughout the centuries:
Berber, Phoenician, Roman, Arab, Andalusian, Ottoman, French.
It has known and assimilated all styles.
It shifts, lashes out, snorts like…

—» Operating in Algeria: A Joyful Schizophrenia
by Myriam Amroun

Operating in a context such as Algeria – and particularly for the professions gravitating around art and culture – has become, by necessity, a project for life.¹ The…

—» Informality and Effervescence: Oran
by Natasha Marie Llorens

The first and most significant aesthetic task of French colonization was to map space.¹To dispossess people of their land, the colonial regime had to know that land.…