Soraya Mouloudji (Arabic :صوريةمولوجي;born 8 October 1977) is the Algerian Minister of Culture and Arts. She was appointed as minister on 19 February 2022. [1] [2] [3]
Mouloudji holds a Doctorate in Translation and Anthropologie. [4]
Algeria,officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria,is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia;to the east by Libya;to the southeast by Niger;to the southwest by Mali,Mauritania,and Western Sahara;to the west by Morocco;and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. The capital and largest city is Algiers,located in the far north on the Mediterranean coast.
The Algerian War was a major armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) from 1954 to 1962,which led to Algeria winning its independence from France. An important decolonization war,it was a complex conflict characterized by guerrilla warfare and war crimes. The conflict also became a civil war between the different communities and within the communities. The war took place mainly on the territory of Algeria,with repercussions in metropolitan France.
Théodore Steeg was a lawyer and professor of philosophy who became Prime Minister of France.
The Order of Arts and Letters is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture. Its supplementary status to the Ordre national du Mérite was confirmed by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963. Its purpose is the recognition of significant contributions to the arts,literature,or the propagation of these fields.
Jacques Soustelle was an important and early figure of the Free French Forces,a politician who served in the French National Assembly and at one time served as Governor General of Algeria,an anthropologist specializing in Pre-Columbian civilizations,and vice-director of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris in 1939. Soustelle and his followers opposed any compromise with anticolonial activists in Algeria in the Algerian War.
The Paris massacre of 1961 was the mass killing of Algerians who were living in Paris by the French National Police. It occurred on 17 October 1961,during the Algerian War (1954–62). Under orders from the head of the Parisian police,Maurice Papon,the National Police attacked a demonstration by 30,000 pro-National Liberation Front (FLN) Algerians. After 37 years of denial and censorship of the press,in 1998 the government finally acknowledged 40 deaths,while some historians estimate that between 200 and 300 Algerians died. Death was due to heavy-handed beating by the police,as well as mass drownings,as police officers threw demonstrators into the river Seine.
The Ministry of Culture is the ministry of the Government of France in charge of national museums and the monuments historiques. Its goal is to maintain the French identity through the promotion and protection of the arts on national soil and abroad. Its budget is mainly dedicated to the management of the Archives Nationales and the regional Maisons de la culture.
The Kabyle people are a Berber ethnic group indigenous to Kabylia in the north of Algeria,spread across the Atlas Mountains,160 kilometres (100 mi) east of Algiers. They represent the largest Berber population of Algeria and the second largest in North Africa.
Marcel AndréMouloudji was a French singer and actor who was born in Paris and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He sang songs written by Boris Vian and Jacques Prévert.
Frédéric Mitterrand was a French actor,screenwriter,producer,and politician who served as Minister of Culture and Communication of France from 2009 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy.
The Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic was the government-in-exile of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) during the latter part of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962).
Algerian literature has been influenced by many cultures,including the ancient Romans,Arabs,French,Spanish,and Berbers. The dominant languages in Algerian literature are French and Arabic.
The Crémieux Decree was a law that granted French citizenship to the majority of the Jewish population in French Algeria,signed by the Government of National Defense on 24 October 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War. It was named after French-Jewish lawyer and Minister of Justice Adolphe Crémieux.
Sport in Algeria dates back to antiquity. In the Aurès Mountains,people played games such as El Kherdba or El khergueba. Playing cards,checkers and chess games are part of Algerian culture. Horse racing (fantasia) and rifle shooting are among the recreational traditions of Algeria.
Khaled Hadj Ibrahim,better known by his mononym Khaled,is an Algerian raïsinger,musician and songwriter. He began recording in his early teens under the name Cheb Khaled.
The Abdelhamid Ben Badis Mosque was inaugurated in Oran,Algeria in 2015.
Abdelmadjid Tebboune is an Algerian politician currently serving as the President of Algeria since December 2019 and as Minister of Defence.
Soraya Marisel Martínez Ferrada is a Chilean-Canadian Liberal politician who was elected as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada to represent the federal riding Hochelaga during the 2019 Canadian federal election. She has served as Minister of Tourism and Minister responsible for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec since 2023.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was confirmed to have spread to Algeria in February 2020. In response,the Algerian government ordered curfews,restricted gatherings,canceled public events,and issued stay-at-home orders between February and June. Some measures were re-implemented in later months in response to new waves of infections. A mass vaccination campaign against COVID-19 began in January 2021. The pandemic disrupted anti-government protests,which largely halted in 2020 and resumed in 2021. 6,881 deaths were officially recorded by the Algerian government through 2022,although the World Health Organization estimated over 21,000 deaths had occurred through 2021.
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