Sofiane Zaggour

One former soldier recalled the sight of livestock wandering around abandoned villages. Their owners had fled and left them behind. Sofiane Zouggar made these haunting images.

Algerian artists are ‘exposing the scars’ of the country’s recent civil war

Arts

Not too long ago, Algeria fought a traumatizing civil war between the country’s military and Islamist militias, now commonly called the “Black Decade.” Today, a younger generation of Algerians is trying to reconcile the country’s trauma through art, but the government has a policy of overlooking it.