El Biar

El Biar ( Arabic الأبيار, DMG al-Abyār  'the sources') is a suburb of Algiers , the capital of Algeria . It is located in the Bouzaréah administrative unit in the province of Algiers . According to the 2005 census, it has a population of 93,012.

history

El Biar was an upscale suburb of Algiers during the Algerian War. There was the Villa des Tourelles, a notorious torture center of the French army. The French mathematician Maurice Audin was tortured and murdered here. French journalist Henri Alleg survived torture and imprisonment. He described the atrocities in his work La Question .

Known residents

• Abderrahmane Nekli , diplomat
• Khalil Boukedjane , football player
• Eldridge Cleaver (1935–1998), author and American civil rights activist
• Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), philosopher
• Dahmane El Harrachi , Chaabi singer
• Mohamed Hamdoud , football player
• Tarek Lazizi , ex-soccer player
• Djamel Menad (* 1960), ex-soccer player
• Lahcène Nazef , football player
• Issam Nima , long jumper
• Georges Rochegrosse (1859–1938), French painter
• Rouiched , comedian
• Abderrahmane Soukhane (1936–2015), football player
• Reda Taliani , Raï singer
• Hàm Nghi (1871–1944), eighth emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty

additional

The Algerian Ministry of Transport is located in El Biar. Likewise the embassy of the Russian Federation .

Web links

Commons : El Biar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ministry of Energy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marc Zitzmann: Victims of torture and fighters for the truth. In: nzz.ch. July 18, 2013, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Contact

Coordinates: 36 ° 46 '  N , 3 ° 2'  E