Le raï, chant populaire d’Algérie qui a connu une renommée mondiale dans les années 1990 grâce à des vedettes comme Cheb Khaled, a été inscrit jeudi au patrimoine immatériel de l’humanité de l’Unesco.

Every bit the people's music as much as punk or hip-hop, raï has been flourishing for decades, even after post-colonial Marxist governments pushed it underground. Sublime Frequencies' vinyl-only ...

In the 1980s, Algeria experienced a tumultuous social context which reached its peak during the riots of October 88. This wave of protest, with youth as its figurehead, echoed the texts of raï singers ...

Earlier this week in Rabat, Unesco examined applications featuring the French baguette, Algerian raï, Serbian “slivo” and Tunisian harissa to decide whether they should be included on the list of ...