Algeria holds international seminar on Abdelkader

More than 250 Algerian and 8 foreign academic researchers attended an international seminar on the historic leader El Amir Abdelkader Saturday in the Algerian west city of Oran.

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• The meeting untitled ‘Al Amir Abdelkader’s legacy, between particularism and universality: An analytical approach’ aims at opening the way for researchers to look at links between the legacy and world issues, say organizers.
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• “This scientific event is an important occasion for boosting scientific research in terms of the foundation of our nation’s civilization,” said president of the seminar scientific commission Bouallam Belguacemi.
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• The two-day seminar is organized in celebration of the 200th anniversary of El Amir Abdelkader.
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• For his part, president of Oran University Larbi Chahed invited translators to work on El Amir Abdelkader’s intellectual legacy into international languages.
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• Al Amir Abdelkader led a popular revolution against the French occupation in Algeria in the mid-nineteenth century. He was exiled to Syria in 1855 where he devoted himself to theology, poetry and philosophy.
• Algeria has built the Emir AbdelKader University and a mosque bearing his name as a national shrine in Constantine in the east of the country.
• Abdelkader is also venerated in other countries and among other nations for his humanitarian deeds. He is known for providing protection the Christian community in Damascus while exiled in Syria.
• Recently the government of Mexico erected a statue of Adelkader in the capital city to celebrate his contribution to the human civilization.
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