Musicians from 21 countries and regions perform during the 15th International Cultural Festival of Symphonic Music in Algiers, Algeria on May 3, 2026. The week-long festival features the Czech ...

Former Algerian Industry Minister Ali Aoun has been sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of corruption, local media reported. Aoun, who was the minister for industry and ...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune set July 2 for parliamentary elections, after the OPEC member made constitutional changes that increased some of his powers. The date for voting on a new ...

(The Conversation) — When Passover arrives each spring, Jewish families around the world gather at their tables to retell a story passed down for thousands of years. At ritual dinners known as Seders, ...

Joseph Pool, a senior at Rollins College in Florida, grew up hearing his Moroccan-born grandparents describe Mimouna, a traditional Moroccan Jewish celebration marking the return to eating chametz ...

Their ancestors came from North Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East and Iberia. And they’re all Jewish. Sephardic Jews, at just 10% of the American Jewish population, are a minority within a ...

An interesting new report was published about non-Ashkenazi Jewish communities in the US, focusing on Persian Jews in the Los Angeles area, Syrian Jews in Brooklyn, Bukharan Jews in Queens, and ...

The Sephardic Academy of Manhattan, with 240 students this year, is the latest sign of a community’s growing presence in the neighborhood. When the Stanley I. Chera Sephardic Academy of Manhattan ...

PARIS, Aug 6 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday has asked his government to tighten visa requirements on Algerian diplomats as a dispute about deportation of Algerian nationals ...

Mona Holmes is an editor at Eater Southern California/Southwest, a regular contributor at KCRW radio, and a 2022 James Beard Award nominee. Borekas, the San Fernando Valley Sephardic pastry shop that ...

The move followed expulsions of French officials by Algeria after an Algerian official was accused of kidnapping an influencer who had been granted political asylum in France. By Roger Cohen and ...