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Title: The "Battle of Algiers" revisited.(Diplomatic Doings)
Author: Sara Powell
Publication: Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2004
Publisher: American Educational Trust
Volume: 23 Issue: 2 Page: 72(1)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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Almost 40 years after its original release, and just months after the Pentagon viewed it, "The Battle of Algiers" was shown at a special Jan. 7 screening in Washington, DC, where it was introduced by Algerian Ambassador Idriss Jazairy. The ambassador began with some facts about Algeria today, and its relationship with the U.S. Since the revolution, the ambassador said, Algeria's population had grown threefold, to about 31 million. Algeria was the U.S.' second largest trade partner in the Arab world, he noted, as well as an important supplier of oil and liquified natural gas. Jazairy also mentioned that the Washington, DC screening was the first of several to be shown in DC, New York, and...