Rachid Taha, who became a rock star in France with assertive lyrics and music that melded his Algerian heritage with punk, funk and electronic beats, has died in Les Lilas, a Paris suburb. He was 59.

In France and Algeria Sept. 17 was circled on the calendar and engraved on many a mind. That is the day when the U.N. General Assembly gathers again in Manhattan, and last week both sides in the ...

Folk songs and folk dance music. Chiefly, Arabic words. Program notes by Peter Throckmorton on container. Performer(s): Performed by Algerian folk musicians. From the heights of our mountains.--The ...