The Sebeiba festival, a 3,000-year-old tradition of the Tuareg people, takes center stage in Djanet, an Algerian oasis town ...

Most Westerners know the battle of Algiers through the lens of Gillo Pontecorvo 's classic film of the same name, co-produced by and starring Yacef Saadi himself.

Louise Hidalgo has been talking to former Algerian resistance leader, Saadi Yacef, who plays himself in the film and on whose memoirs the film is largely based.

After the Algerian War, Yacef helped produce Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo's film The Battle of Algiers (1966), based on Souvenirs de la Bataille d'Alger.

Of all the rebel commanders in Algeria, none has given the French more trouble than handsome Yacef Saadi, the 29-year-old ex-baker who for nearly two years hcs been chief of the FLN (Algerian ...

To help audiences suspend their disbelief, Pontecorvo cast unknowns and non-actors including one of the actual leaders of the National Liberation Front, Saadi Yacef, playing a dramatised version of ...

Saadi Yacef, leader of the National Liberation Front (FLN), following his capture by French authorities, September 1957. (Photo Credit: AFP / Getty Images) The Battle of Algiers was a docudrama by ...

Centering on the young revolutionary Ali La Pointe (Brahim Haggiag), The Battle of Algiers offers a street-level view of life in 1960s Algiers, from deeply personal moments to massive crowd scenes ...

The movie is an adaptation of Yacef Saadi’s 1962 memoir Souvenirs de la Bataille d’Alger (Memories from the Battle of Algiers).