In Algiers, a youth-led gallery offers community through music during Ramadan

In Algiers, a youth-led gallery offers community through music during Ramadan

ALGIERS, Algeria (RNS) — Each weekend of Ramadan, in a former art gallery just minutes from the Grande Poste d’Alger in downtown Algiers, a group of around 10 young Algerians hosts a post-Iftar jam session led by young local artists. The gallery, called El Medrab, or “the spot” in the colloquial Algerian Arabic, was created in what the organizers call the “sharing spirit of Ramadan.” It started as a not-for-profit way for young Algerian artists …

The Algerian National Theatre (TNA) Mahieddine-Bachtarzi celebrated World Theatre Day on Thursday evening – March 27 – by honoring several figures of Algerian theatre. Presiding over the ceremony, the Minister of Culture and Arts, Mr. Zouhir Ballalou, spoke in his speech of the need to "be in tune with public expectations" and to address the "cultural and human challenges of the day." He went on to emphasize his ministry's "firm determination" t…