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  Né a Bab El Oued - 1948 - ALGER
Eh bien oui, je suis moi aussi de Bâb El Oued pour y être né en 1948 à la clinique Durando, tout près des Trois horloges, face au commissariat, en plein coeur de Bâb El Oued.
En 1958, nous quittons la rue MASSENET pour aller habiter les HLM flambants neufs, de la cité des EUCALYTUS, sur les hauteurs de Bab El Oued.
Pour aller au centre de Bab El Oued, on pouvait prendre l'ascenseur payant qui arrivait dans la rue Mizon.
neababeloued.timoner.com /accueil.html   (2602 words)

  
  Bab - Encyclopedia.com
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www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-X-Bab.html   (234 words)

  
  Bab el-oued city
BAB EL-OUED CITY (1994, Algeria, 93 min.), directed by Merzak Allouache; screenplay by Merzak Allouache; cinematography by Jean-Jacques Mréjen; music by Rachid Bahr; edited by Marie Colonna; with Hassan Abdou (Boualem), Mohamed Ourdache (Said), Nadia Kaei (Yamina), Mabrouk Ait Amara (Mabrouk), Messaoud Hattau (Mess) Nadia Samir (Ouardya); Mourad Khen (Rachid).
Bab el-Oued City opens with a young woman writing a letter to her lover.
He later published the story of Bab el-Oued City as a novel, including some of the scenes that he was unable to get into the film because of the logistical constraints.
spot.pcc.edu /~mdembrow/bab_el-oued_city.htm   (1528 words)

  
 Bab El-Oued City - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Bab El-Oued City, motion picture about political turbulence in Bab El-Oued, a working-class neighborhood of Algiers, Algeria.
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Āseb, city and port in southern Eritrea, on the Red Sea coast near the strait of Bab el Mandeb.
encarta.msn.com /Bab_El-Oued_City.html   (137 words)

  
  Bab El-Oued - Bentalha : l’impunité des grands nombres
A Bab El-Oued, il suffisait de diffuser d’urgence l’ordre de bloquer les accès au Frais Vallon par son amont, pour sauver de la mort sans doute une bonne moitié des victimes.
A Bab El-Oued comme à Bentalha, «la population en danger» s’est débrouillée seule.
A Bab El-Oued comme à Bentalha, «l’assistance officielle» a commencé lorsque tout péril de mort s’est trouvé écarté.
www.algeria-watch.de /farticle/analyse/babeloued_bentalha.htm   (1374 words)

  
 Death toll mounts as floods devastate Algiers
Bab el Oued was worst hit, as water and tonnes of mud streamed down an adjoining hill—swamping the area.
Bab el Oued is still largely cut off by a wall of mud and many roads remain impassable—further hampering the rescue, with meteorologists warning of more rain on the way.
President Bouteflika briefly visited Bab el Oued on Sunday, but was met by angry residents complaining of appalling living conditions and the government’s inadequate response to the crisis.
www.wsws.org /articles/2001/nov2001/alge-n16_prn.shtml   (825 words)

  
 Bab El Oued, un an : trop peu pour oublier
Bab El Oued a reçu des sommes considérables, dons, téléthon et aides de l'Etat, soit environ 800 millions de dinars, mais cet argent n'est pas encore utilisé.
Un an après, les habitants de Bab El Oued vivent encore dans la douleur et assument difficilement les conséquences de la catastrophe.
Il y a quelques semaines, des jeunes de Bab El Oued ont décidé de tenir un tournoi de football à la mémoire de l'une des victimes du quartier, le jeune Saïd Naâmane.
www.algeria-watch.de /farticle/inondations/babeloued_1_an.htm   (1828 words)

  
 Il etait une fois Bab el Oued, par Hubert Zakine
Nommés par un comité des sages, trois Chefs de la Nation Israélite se voient confirmés ou infirmés par la Régence qui utilise les compétences des grands négociants de la communauté pour les finances, le commerce, les relations diplomatiques avec les consulats étrangers, le secrétariat et la traduction de nombreuses langues.
Les « milah », les Bar misvah, les mariages, conservent néanmoins le rite séfarade algérois et les synagogues de Bab El Oued résonnent des mêmes prières que celles d’antan.
Bab El Oued accueille ces citoyens de seconde zone sous l’empire ottoman que le décret CREMIEUX naturalisera en 1870.
www.zlabia.com /iletaitunefoisbabeloued.htm   (849 words)

  
 The Heat Is Online
Another 75 bodies were found between Tuesday night and yesterday in the mud of the ruined open-air market in the hard-hit district of Oued Koriche, part of the capital's Bab el Oued working-class neighborhood, the Civil Defense said.
Most of the victims Saturday were in Algiers' working-class district of Bab el Oued, where residents were swept away by raging muddy waters cascading down a main road, buried under the rubble or their homes or trapped in their cars.
"Bab el Oued was the most damaged area in Algiers as the neighborhood is located at the foot of a hill.
www.heatisonline.org /contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=3823&method=full   (1411 words)

  
 Resources for Merzak Allouache's "Bab el Oued"
A French-language Bab el Oued website that offers a map ("Plan"), a history, a bibliography ("Texte") and numerous photos ("Vues").
Bab el Oued page from a large web site devoted to French Algeria offers a slide show.
French language history of Bab el Oued from its origins in 1871.
courses.wcupa.edu /jones/his312/misc/baboued.htm   (1510 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Bab
His early ambition was for a legal career, but in 1861 he began to publish comic ballads, illustrated by himself and signed 'Bab.' In 1870 he met Arthur Sullivan, and they soon produced the light...
BAB Holdings, Inc. Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire Jacobs Bros./Brueggers Stores in Chicago.
BAB Holdings, Inc. Reports Record Earnings for Fiscal 1998.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Bab&StartAt=21   (758 words)

  
 News: Algeria: Floods - Nov 2001, Storm salvage goes on, Algiers vows crackdown on aid theft
Much of the fraud was occurring at warehouses in Bab Ezzouar and the Algiers Fair on the outskirts of the city, both clearing houses for aid destined for Bab El Oued.
Interior Minister Yazid Zerhouni and officials from the city's crisis centre said measures were being stepped up to tackle the problem of theft of relief supplies, and blamed the slow pace of aid delivery on efforts to ensure that beneficiaries were indeed flood victims, and that fraudsters were caught.
Human beings, vehicles and entire homes in Bab El Oued were submerged by torrents of mud and water.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/OCHA-64C3ZL?OpenDocument   (642 words)

  
 Bab El-Oued
Sollicitée par "Caritas" et l'Association "S.O.S. Bab El-Oued" pour aider les survivants, Raymonde Marie nous dit ce qu'elle a vu et entendu.
Avec pour seule protection une corde passée autour de la taille, et retenue par quelques copains perchés sur un mur ou un balcon, ils se jetaient dans le torrent de boue pour y repêcher ceux qui luttaient pour essayer de sortir de là.
Avec les jeunes de "S.O.S Bab El-Oued" nous découvrons autour de chez eux des familles dans une détresse incroyable, naufragées de la vie sans aucune ressource.
soeurs-blanches.cef.fr /journ95c.htm   (475 words)

  
 Africa In The Picture - Bab el Web
Bab el Web is shot in the Bab el Oued area of Algiers, and this time, the cameras were allowed everywhere to film this comedy about two brothers, Bouzid and Kamel, who dream about their return to France.
Merzak Allouache was born in Algiers, studied Film in France, and debuted in 1976 with the comedy Omar Gatlato.
Bab El Qued City (1994) was rewarded in Cannes with the price of the international critics.
www.africainthepicture.nl /en/program/filmsA-Z/12/Bab_el_Web.html   (127 words)

  
 Guardian | Algerian floods toll could exceed 1,000
Twelve bodies were pulled from the wreckage of Oued Koriche market, in the working-class district of Bab el Oued, the centre of the catastrophe, overnight Wednesday, civil defence officials said.
It was Algeria's worst natural disaster since an earthquake devastated the western city of Chlef, formerly El Asnam, killing 1,500, in 1981.
The government has declared at least 155 buildings in Bab el Oued unsafe and ordered their evacuation, the news agency APS said.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4300074-103636,00.html   (443 words)

  
 Bab el Oued Story liens
Le quartier de Bab el Oued est interdit aux forces de l'ordre.
Bab el Oued est transformé en véritable ghetto.Massacre du 26 mars 1962 rue Isly à Alger,tragédie du 5 juillet 1962 à Oran,enlèvements disparus la torture pendant la guerre d'Algérie chronologie historique sur Algérie.
A l'indépendance, la ville fut rebaptisée EL Asnam, après le nouveau séisme du 10 octobre 80, elle prit le nom de Chleff, les habitants pensant que le nom de El Asnam (les ruines...) portait malheur...
babelouedstory.com /liens_01/liens_01.html   (4238 words)

  
 People: Visiting Fellows   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Omar Gatlato (1976), his first feature film, set in the neighborhood of Bab el-Oued in Algiers, was such a success that it changed the course of Algerian cinema.
The film captured the beginnings of the civil war and the complexities of the resurgent Islamic fundamentalism that was then spreading across Algeria.
Bab el-Oued City garnered the International Critics' Prize at Cannes in 1994, as well as the grand prize at the Arab Film Festival in Paris.
www.fas.harvard.edu /~fsc/visiting-fellows.html   (413 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Bab El-Oued: Books: Merzak Allouache,Tahira Naqvi,Angela M. Brewer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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Life among the denizens of a poor neighborhood in Algiers, Bab el-Oued, was the subject of Algerian director Allouache's 1993 film of the same name.
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www.amazon.com /Bab-El-Oued-Merzak-Allouache/dp/089410859X   (813 words)

  
 Harvard Film Archive: Merzak Allouache
Omar Gatlato (1976), his first feature film, set in the neighborhood of Bab el-Oued in Algiers, was such a success that it changed the course of Algerian cinema.
Bab el-Oued City garnered the International Critics' Prize at Cannes in 1994, as well as the grand prize at the Arab Film Festival in Paris.
In 1993 as Merzak was filming Bab el-Oued City in Algiers, the terror of the civil war was already gripping Algeria.
www.harvardfilmarchive.org /calendars/05_winter/allouache.html   (983 words)

  
 Planet Ark : UPDATE - Poor planning played a role in Algeria flooding
Thirty-nine bodies were found since Monday evening amid mud and debris in Oued Koriche, one of the most devastated city districts, a Civil Defence officer who did not want to be named told Reuters at the scene.
Experts said flash floods swept away hundreds in Algiers' poor Bab el Oued neighbourhood because safe construction practices were disregarded and sewers not maintained.
The waters cascaded down from Bouzareah heights into the densely populated Bab el Oued district through a main road that 50 years ago was the bed of the Koriche River.
www.planetark.org /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/13293/story.htm   (1026 words)

  
 Fishy dealings in Bab el Oued hospital
El Khabar has known from responsible services that the Health ministry has sent central inspectors to the hospital of Bab El Oued of the capital after a copy of a report of the Finances General Inspection which has revealed many infractions during public transactions.
The report of the inspection of Finances on the management of the Teaching hospital of Bab El Oued “former Maillot” has revealed many infractions and violations during public transactions of a value exceeding billion dinars and in foreign currencies.
The report of which El Khabar has got a copy explains in detail all suspected transactions between the hospital and many private companies which distribute medical and alimentary products even equipments.
www.algeria-events.com /article198.html   (233 words)

  
 Islam Online- News Section   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The discovery Saturday of 15 more bodies in the working class neighborhood of Bab El Oued raised the death toll from the violent storms to 722.
Bab El Oued bore the brunt of the storms' wrath, with torrents of mud submerging the district that sits at the foot of hills - sweeping people, market stalls, vehicles and homes out to sea.
As far as the government is concerned, the damage that struck Bab El Oued was nothing but a "natural disaster," he said.
www.islamonline.net /English/News/2001-11/19/article6.shtml   (884 words)

  
 The Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, The Open University
The aim of this survey is to prove that the fragility of the Algerian post colonial cities, and in particular Algiers city, is the consequence of the urban management weakness.
The study starts with a historic and a presentation of the city in its regional context, then by an analysis of the urban main problems induced by socioeconomic practices and populists managements having provoked the flooding on the 10/11/2001 in the Bab El Oued zone.
It ends by recommendations on the urban management of Algiers city and by a prospective vision on city in relation with its potential and the impact of the introduction of the new technologies of Information.
www.open.ac.uk /Arts/ferguson-centre/archive/MorConfAb2004p19.htm   (357 words)

  
 Red Cross Red Crescent - News
Then in November 2001, major flooding combined with mudslides at Bab El-Oued near the capital city Algiers, killing hundreds of people and burying houses under tonnes of rubble.
In May 2003, a powerful earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale hit the city of Boumerdes, 50 km east of the capital, killing almost 3,000 people, injuring more than 10,000 and causing massive destruction in several other cities and towns.
The response of the Algerian Red Crescent to both the Boumerdes earthquake and the Bab El-Oued floods was impressive.
www.ifrc.org /docs/news/04/04091302   (814 words)

  
 Bab el-Oued City   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Boualem is a young man who works the local bakery’s graveyard shift in the Bab El-Oued district of Algiers.
One morning, shortly after the bloody riots of October, 1988, he commits an unthinking act which jeopardizes the entire district: Unable to stand the noise from one of the many rooftop loudspeakers broadcasting the propaganda of a local fundamentalist group, he rips the speaker out and throws it away.
"Bab el-Oued City is to date the most lucid depiction on film of the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism in Algeria." -Variety
www.arabfilm.com /item_print.html?itemID=17   (277 words)

  
 Video Bab El Oued - Bab, El, Oued, BEO, Eugene - Dailymotion Share Your Videos
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 Bab El-Oued City Movie Review (1994) from Channel 4 Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Allouache's award-winning drama offers a fascinating portrait of life in modern Algeria and a brave attack on the startling Islamic fundamentalism that's engulfing the country.
Story is set in the working-class Bab el-Oued district of Algiers, where young Abdou earns his crust as a baker.
A religious moderate, he's so infuriated by the hateful propaganda blaring from the local fundamentalists' tannoy system that he vandalizes one of the loudspeakers.
www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=100728   (135 words)

  
 Bab El-Oued City (1994) - Overview - MSN Movies
Synopsis: The potential dangers inherent in the continued increase of Islamic fundamentalism in Algeria is clearly portrayed in this European political drama.
The film is set in early 1993 and takes place in a decaying neighborhood, Bab El-Oued.
Throughout his neighborhood the fundamentalists, locally led by the fanatical Said, have placed loud-speakers upon the rooftops to broadcast their hateful propaganda.
entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=22070   (81 words)

  
 Algerian government curbs extreme religious practices (Magharebia.com)
Another is active Salafism, championed by founders of the former Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) including Ali Benhadj, Abdelkader Moghni (the imam of Bab El Oued in Algiers) and also Kamal Guemmazi, one of the most active members of the former FIS.
The deployment of Salafi elements in Algerian mosques is worrying the government, which, via the ministry of religious affairs, has given instructions to help mosques guard against the movement's efforts to take them over.
According to the daily newspaper El Khabar, police are conducting a nationwide investigation into the movement's spread and its appearance in mosques.
www.magharebia.com /cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/reportage/2006/12/22/reportage-01   (1161 words)

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