The film director Tony Gatlif was born in Algiers in 1948, and the actor Daniel Auteuil in 1950.
Born in Algiers
The film director Tony Gatlif was born in Algiers in 1948, and the actor Daniel Auteuil in 1950.
Louis Althusser, the philosopher, was born in Bir Mourad Raïs, then called Birmandreis, on 16 October 1918. He died on 22 October 1990.
Albert Camus, the writer, spent his childhood in the working class quarter of Belcourt, today Belouizdad. His family, led by his grandmother, settled there in a small flat.
Museums and schools
The Musée public national d'art moderne et contemporain d'Alger (MAMA), the museum of modern art, is at 25 rue Larbi Ben M'hidi, in Alger-Centre.
Rue Doudou Mokhtar, in Ben Aknoun, is home to two national higher schools, for political sciences and for journalism. The school of political sciences is named after Mohamed Zeddour Brahim Kacem, and the school of journalism after Amhamed Yazid.
In 2019 the historian Colette Zytnicki published Un village à l'heure coloniale with Belin, a study of daily life in Draria from 1830 to 1962.
Football
El-Harrach is the home of the football club USM El Harrach, which plays at the Stade du 1er-Novembre-1954 in nearby Mohammadia.
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