The future of Mohamed Idir Hadid looks set to unfold far from his current club. According to the Algerian sports daily El Heddaf, the goalkeeper is considering a move as early as this winter transfer ...

Idir Boumertit became a celebrity because of his career in the National Assembly, which represents the origin of his fame. Of Algerian origin and born in France, Boumertit climbed the political ladder ...

Idir is an Algerian celebrity from Kabylia, a region located in the north of Algeria. Born in 1949, he helped popularize Kabyle music internationally. It was in 1973 that his artistic career really ...

Four years after a popular uprising fueled hopes for change and real democracy, the country’s government is using vaguely defined statutes to round up hundreds. By Constant Méheut Constant Méheut ...

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In the 1990s I had the good fortune to meet with the late Algerian singing star Idir (Hamid Cheriet 1949-2020). We chatted for several hours in a café outside the Berber Cultural Association in Paris.

The death of Algerian icon Idir has brought an important chapter of Algerian music to a close. Through his brilliant career, Idir modernised and promoted the richness of Kabyle melodies and poetry, ...

On May 2, 2970 of the year Yennayer (Berber calendar, May 2, 2020 for the Christian calendar) a hero of our time flew to the stars. Idir, Hamid Cheriet, who so often contemplated the starry vault when ...

Algerian singer Hamid Cheriet, better known as Idir, a major interpreter of Berber music, died in Paris last week at 70. Though not a political activist, he and his music were identified with efforts ...

Idir, an Algerian singer who gave voice to the Berber and Kabyle cultures, has died in Paris. He was 70. Saturday's death of the singer, whose real name was Hamid Cheriet, was confirmed on a post on ...