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	Slang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's dialect or language.
		Slang terms are frequently particular to a certain subculture, such as musicians, skateboarders, and members of a minority.
		Slang is to be distinguished from jargon, the technical vocabulary of a particular profession, as the association of informality is not present.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slang (1269 words)

	Cheikha Rimitti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Her songs described the tough life endured by the Algerian poor, focusing on everyday struggle of living, pleasures of sex, love, alcohol and friendship and the realities of war.
		Her music crossed over to the West and she undertook prestigious concerts in big cities and worldwide capitals as well as collaborating with Robert Fripp and Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers on the "Sidi Mansour" LP in 1994, inaugurating a new electric form of raï.
		Her most recent album N’ta Goudami, released in 2006, was a lustful combination of traditional Algerian and modern rock sounds sung in a deep voice of booming energy that belied her 83 years and garnered enthusiastic reviews [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cheikha_Rimitti (866 words)

	Algerian War Reading
		The international repercussions of the Algerian affair were obsessing the parties in the Front Republicain and, by September 1957, the gap had widened between the politicians and the military, between the metropolis and the pieds noirs, and within the left itself.
		The Algerian affair, in fact, legitimated a republican reading of the FLN as a "symbol of justice"; but a different reading saw the organization as the conveyor of an "archaic nationalism to be transcended." The PCF also proved incapable of deciding between these two readings.
		The Algerian nationalist movements, applying the principle that the success of an enterprise is a function of the financial means its organizers possess, devoted their efforts to developing and increasing their sources of revenue.
	www.usfca.edu /fac_staff/webberm/algeria.htm (19414 words)

	Rai Downloads - Download Rai Music - Download Rai MP3s
		Algerian worldbeat artist Rachid Taha was born in the Gulf of Oran during the peak of the Independence War era; as a child, he relocated with his family to France, later finding employment as a dishwasher, cook and factory worker before landing a DJing gig at a small area club.
		The unrivaled queen of Algerian rai music, Cheikha Rimitti was one of the most beloved and controversial singers of the Islamic world, challenging deeply ingrained notions of sex, politics, and femininity with such candor and ferocity that she was ultimately forced into exile.
		Born May 8, 1923, in the western Algerian countryside of Tessaa, she was orphaned as an infant and given the name Saadia, spending her adolescence working as a domestic.
	www.mp3.com /rai/genre/854/subgenre.html (2443 words)

	Harbor - Bar Supplies - BarSecret.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Having lived for a number of years in Algeria, I was eager to read this story of Algerian illegal immigrants seeking to escape the vicious civil war which devastated that country from 1992-2001 (and still continues in some parts).
		Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Adams spent a long time immersed in Algerian immigrant communities across the U.S. and Canada as part of her coverage of the 1999 Millennium plot (which was foiled at the Canadian border).
		Utterly ironic, this is the story of Aziz, a young Algerian who arrives at the Boston harbor as a stowaway on a tanker.
	www.barsecret.com /product/140004233X-Harbor.html (1437 words)

	culturebase.net \| The international artist database \| Intik
		Intik blends traditional Algerian melodies with rap and reggae to express in songs the anger of rebels and uprooted folk living under unbearable conditions.
		The youngest generation of Algerian musicians blends the melodies of their homeland with the global sounds of rebels and uprooted folk.
		'Intik' is Algerian slang for 'no problem', which is the quartet's cynical answer to the problems in their homeland.
	www.culturebase.net /artist.php?535 (153 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| The Algerian connection
		A Special Branch officer had, however, apparently recognised one of the Algerians as a terrorist suspect and the men were therefore asked to "bag" their clothes and dress in white paper suits to avoid contaminating evidence.
		The majority of Algerians arriving in Britain are law abiding and peaceful, while many political asylum seekers would be in danger if forced to return to their homeland.
		A Muslim Algerian, who has been granted political asylum in Britain because of his opposition to the current regime, said he comes across extremists who have entered the country as asylum seekers.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/01/19/noak119.xml (1446 words)

	washingtonpost.com: The Strangers Among Us
		The image at the heart of Lorraine Adams's luminous first novel is a mysterious storage locker outside Boston rented by illegal Algerian immigrants who may or may not be terrorists.
		As the Boston field office of the FBI becomes convinced that this loose collection of Algerians is in fact a tightly coordinated terrorist cell, Aziz and his fellow immigrants find themselves under surveillance.
		And once the investigation is set in motion, the microphones and microcams planted and the vans in place, it must follow its relentless logic to a tragic conclusion.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A57785-2004Sep2?language=printer (779 words)

	Foreign Affairs - The Secret Agents: Life Inside an al Qaeda Cell - Camille Pecastaing
		Composed of members of the Algerian diaspora radicalized by the civil war at home and by the success of Iranian revolutionaries and the Afghan mujahideen, the GSPC is not unlike Malaysia's Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) -- a group drawn from mostly Indonesian immigrants who have fled poverty and political oppression.
		They are obsessed with matters of style: the beard, a distinctive slang, open disdain for women, wearing one's watch on the right wrist rather than the left, an aversion to all jewelry, and an irritation with Sifaoui's beret (which they think makes him look Jewish).
		Some suspect him of being an agent for the Algerian secret service, working in France to flen the reputation of political Islam and bolster support for the Algerian regime (which regularly imprisons and kills the likes of Bourti and his fellows).
	www.foreignaffairs.org /20040101fareviewessay83115/camille-pecastaing/the-secret-agents-life-inside-an-al-qaeda-cell.html?mode=print (1745 words)

	USATODAY.com - French youths speaking their own language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		To the horror of France's language purists, the fast-morphing street slang is everywhere — schoolyards, newspapers, the Internet, movies, ad campaigns, TV and radio.
		The 20 nights of riots that began in October awakened France to the growing economic and social disparities created by a system that had prided itself on equality.
		Arab and non-white hip-hop artists from the gritty suburbs were first to articulate the rage building there — and the first to prophesy social explosion.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-01-05-french-slang_x.htm?csp=34 (1004 words)

	Islam in France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Foremost among the Algerian presence is the Grande Mosquée de Paris and its associated Muslim Institute.
		And the victims of police violence during a 1961 Paris protest—a still uncounted number of "French Muslim of Algerian origin" estimated at between 50 and 200—had their memory inscribed by the mayor at the site of their deaths.
		Reacting to the October 6 soccer match in Le Monde, the Algerian ambassador to France argued that the French state was equally responsible for the alienation of second-generation migrant youth, and called for their prompt social and political incorporation.
	www.brook.edu /fp/cusf/analysis/islam.htm (2036 words)

	Endnotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The word beur, and today’s inversion rebu, comes from French suburban slang (verlan) in which the main rule is word inversion.
		Cheb is the typical but extremely ethnic Algerian name given to raï singers to distinguish them from the old singer (chikh).
		It is significant that this group (reputed to have a particularly strong work ethic in Algeria) who was marginalized in the home country was the most keen to emigrate in the 1960s.
	research.umbc.edu /eol/MA/index/number5/marranci/marr_7.htm (389 words)

	Algerian rappers sing the blues.
		This western Algerian city is the birthplace of rai, and of one of its leading stars, Khaled.
		Two famous groups in Algiers, MBS (Microphone Breaks the Silence) and Intik (“cool” in Algerian slang) have already brought out their first CD in France, Algerap on one of the big labels.
		But the genre is still struggling to establish itself: audiences in France are more drawn to immigrant Algerian rappers such as Freeman and Imhotep, of the Marseilles group IAM, Rimka of Collectif 113, and non-Algerians like Joey Starr, of the duo NTM, who worked on the albums of MBS and Intik.
	www.unesco.org /courier/2000_07/uk/doss23.htm (1203 words)

	American Dialect Society
		Dictionary of Slang: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom.
		English, as She is Spoke at McMurdo and Pole: Dictionary of Antarctic slang.
		Grammar of Algerian Darja: Darja is the term most commonly used in North Africa to refer to the local dialect of Arabic/language developed from Arabic.
	www.americandialect.org /index.php/amerdial/links/C185 (813 words)

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		The Algerian Cinema is of ramifications, as it is considered the only Arab Cinema -after the Egyptian Cinema- with historical roots.
		Most equipment which was owned by Algeria remains in the store houses, that one of the Algerian directors had to rent a camera from Tunisia to shoot a film, plus many other Algerian directors work in France, this is what hits the Algerian cinema in its cultural identity.
		The existing and continuity would make the slang familiar, and this is what happened to the Egyptian drama, which was able to be dominant in most of the Arab countries, because of repeat and continuity in various works.
	www.arab-celebs.com /Article.asp?ID=10 (681 words)

	MILE HIGH COMICS presents THE BEAT at COMICON.com: Alexis Siegel on translations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		For example, in The Rabbi’s Cat, Sfar has a scene where one of the characters, an Algerian Jew, performs a street song dressed as an Arab and using a lot of the Arabic words that have made their way into French slang.
		He borrowed an actual song from an Algerian songwriter who lived in France in the 1930s, and translating it turned out to be quite a task.
		I found the recording and came up with several different versions of the lyrics to fit the music, knowing from the start that it was an impossible task to capture all the dimensions of that scene, which is informed by France’s conflicted relationship with its former North African colonies.
	www.comicon.com /thebeat/2006/04/alexis_siegel_on_translations.html (332 words)

	Artist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Starting with the name, which you are not likely to forget (it means « broke » in Algerian slang).
		Then there’s the musical style: Zginga are the only Maghreb rap collective in Geneva to sing in both French and Arabic.
		A first album set things alight in 2004 and now they are back with another one that captures their identity, “Le riche et le pauvre”.
	www.paleo.ch /en/program/detail/artist.php?&id=845 (86 words)

	Print
		Her novel, "Kiffe kiffe demain (More of the Same Tomorrow)," recounts the life of a heroine named Doria.
		Guene still marvels over the fact that very little of her manuscript was changed.
		By 14 she had written several scripts and finished her first short film, "La Zonzoniere", (zonzon is slang for prison) about an adolescent girl whose zealously traditional father and brother keep her imprisoned in the family apartment.
	www.mafhoum.com /press7/219C39.htm (1102 words)

	Algerian policemen confess they killed
		LONDON: The ninja - slang for the Algerian junta's feared Balaclava-clad paramilitary police force - spoke quietly as he gave the details of the October 10 massacre last year.
		Their testimony is damning evidence contradicting the official line of the Algerian government - that Islamic activists alone are responsible for the slaughter.
		The Algerian regime denies using torture, but Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture say it is systematic and have case after case after case on their files detailing instances of torture.
	www.muslimedia.com /archives/oaw98/algpolic.htm (1013 words)

	Against Death from Algeria to Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Hence in the struggle that is not governed by any rules or conventions except lust for power and control, there's no protection for any, and people have to hide their heads.
		They'll be responsible for the exacerbation of the slaughter, the disintegration of authority, and the further spread of the carnage amongst more Algerian groups: Arabs and Berbers, peasants and urbanites, the agents of France and the agents of the U.S,..., or between inhabitants of one region and another.
		However, as the Algerian government exhibits incompetence, and its armed forces seem less than capable of bringing the continuous massacres to a halt, the killers will continue their operations to make the government feel ever more incompetent, and to make the Algerian people feel that the
	www.freearabvoice.org /fav281197.htm (2516 words)

	Riots in France
		They “hold the wall” (an expression borrowed from the Franco-Algerian slang, “hittist,” referring to idle young males in the streets).
		But beyond skin colour, there are also the stigmas of the “suburbs”: a specific slang and accent, a way to behave and to dress identify immediately a ghetto inhabitant, while somebody with the same dark skin but mastering the dominant social codes would achieve better.
		Strangely enough, Palestinian or Algerian flags as well as Arafat-style keffyehs (a must in leftist demonstrations in France) have been totally absent.
	riotsfrance.ssrc.org /Roy (2186 words)

	SocioSite: LANGUAGE RESOURCES
		You can browse or search this comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor.
		Bargoens - An introduction to Dutch slang, in Dutch.
		Dictionary of English slang and colloquialisms used in the UK
	www.sociosite.net /language.php (3880 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Music: Tékitoi [Bonus DVD], Dr. Rachid Taha, CD
		Liberal doses of Algerian chaabi and rai, French aesthetics, Arabic lyrics.
		On the musical side alone, this is an astounding album, moving from French banter to a cover of "Rock the Casbah" with a different message in the lyrics back into Taha's bread and butter with Arabic-infused rock.
		Additionally included is the DVD of a Mexican tour, with bits of concert footage, soundchecks, interviews with bandmembers, a massive number of press interviews with Rachid, and some surprisingly artistic footage from the travels throughout the country.
	music.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?userid=y65NsJy9Jm&EAN=875232002029&ITM=1 (797 words)

	Front Page News - Atlanta's Favorite Restaurant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Some locals say "Algereens", but we always said Algerians.
		A white meat with a texture like pork which is perfect for absorbing the spices it is cooked with.
		Slang for Acadians, the French speaking people who migrated to South Louisiana from Nova Scotia in the eighteenth century.
	www.newsyoucanswallow.com /dictionarybody.htm (2287 words)

	Patrick Bruel - Biography - AOL Music
		A fine soccer player in his youth, Patrick first settled on the idea of being a singer after seeing Michel Sardou perform in 1975.
		As luck would have it, acting would bring him his first success; first-time director Alexandre Arcady ran an ad seeking a young man with a French-Algerian (or "pied-noir" in French slang) accent for his film Le Coup de Sirocco.
		Benguigui (as he was still called) responded and won the part.
	music.aol.com /artist/patrick-bruel/204386/biography (772 words)

	Khaled - Ya-Rayi @ Soundbug
		Salif Keita led the way with his wonderful Moffou in 2002, and already this year we've had milestone albums from the Gipsy Kings (Roots) and Youssou N'Dour (Egypt), with Mory Kante's Sabou due in September.
		The accompaniment is mostly loud and upfront, Khaled's exultant roar is undiminished, and on the surface sounds similar to his four million-selling albums since his international breakthrough in 1992.
		I think it's due to the fact that most of them were written with a big support from his wife this time.
	www.soundbug.com /asin/B0002UNQQI (1503 words)

	Resources for Merzak Allouache's "Bab el Oued"
		Aami Mourad: former militant from the Algerian Communist Party, customer in Hassan's bakery, born in 1920s (p16)
		Mess (Messaoud): Parisian-born Algerian trapped in Algiers for lack of a passport (pp24 & 29)
		Pied Noirs (slang for French settlers in Algeria) offers a selection of photos from Bab el Oued.
	courses.wcupa.edu /jones/his312/misc/baboued.htm (979 words)

	Algeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		From 1996 to 2000, the Society for Algerian Studies, at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London published Algeria Journal, “to provide a vehicle for informed discussion of this important North African state.” Abstracts from the last two volumes are posted at www.frankcass.com/jnls/alg_4and5.htm.
		The Algerian Majlis/Parliament maintains a virtual presence in Arabic and French, at www.majliselouma.dz/new_site/page_web3.html.
		”The power”: Algerian slang for the “small clique of generals, politicians, diplomats and even intellectuals who have long ruled the country” from behind the scenes, per The New York Times’ Alan Riding, “A Former Algerian Army Officer Loses His Pseudonym,” 21 February 2002.
	www.jrn.columbia.edu /admissions/programs/training/ellis/algeria.htm (2081 words)

	FFS - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Front des Forces socialistes or the Front of Socialist Forces, an Algerian political party.
		"For fuck's sake" in Internet slang and British slang.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about FFS contains research on
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/FFS (114 words)

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