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I've found Mohamed Benchicou 's book "Bouteflika une Imposture Algerienne " floating on the net and available for download ( click here to access pdf ). I feel a little guilty for posting it here, bearing in mind authors' rights. I bought the book and it is doubtless a very important document on Algerian history, on Algeria's present even, which is why I thought I'd share this link, because not everyone can afford it and it is a vital read. Rare are the books on Bouteflika, he is a shadowy figure and I believe it took some guts to publish, bearing in mind Benchicou spent two years in prison. Mohamed Benchicou is an Algerian journalist, formerly director of the newspaper Le Matin, which he founded in 1991 (and before that he was the director of the paper Alger Republicain). Benchicou was famously arrested on false grounds in 2003 and imprisonned for two years from 2004 to 2006 and Le Matin was closed. In 2004, he published his book 'Bouteflika,...

I found this book floating in cyber space ( specifically on Zoom Algerie ) about El Manchar . El Manchar was a politically charged and daring satyrical bi-monthly founded by the late Sid Ali Melouah - a renown cartoonist - in the early 90s, for which some of the best Algerian cartoonists drew and wrote from 1990 to 1992, until the magazine had to stop publishing. El Manchar was the place where readers first encountered Dilem, Sour, Fathy, Hic, Benyezzar, Bouss, Aknouche, Ayoub, Abi, Gyps, Dahmani, Beneddine and Nedjmedine . Take a quick read here, so much of it is still current. You can download the book here . Enjoy.

I've just discovered the cartoonist Carlos Latuff, based in Rio, who draws about Palestine and Iraq. His work, as he titles it, is ArtIntifada, he site is here . Here are a couple of my favourites:

L'une ressemble beaucoup à l'autre, c'est che-lou. Ne cherchez pas l'intru c'est les deux.