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Ouargla

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Ouargla (wär`glä), town and oasis, E Algeria. It is the administrative center of a well-watered oasis at the junction of several Saharan desert caravan routes. Ouargla lies in the heart of a palm grove numbering more than 500,000 productive trees. The Hassi Messaoud oil fields are nearby as well as natural gas deposits. The oasis was settled c.A.D. 1000 by Muslims of the Kharijite sect, who were fleeing religious persecution. It became a small city-state which, from the 16th cent., paid tribute to the Turks. The town was conquered by French forces in 1853. It has a museum of Sahara desert life. An alternate spelling is Wargla.


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There is, for example, Malika, who now lives in Algiers, Langewiesche's starting point, though she used to live with her husband, Ameur, in Ouargla in the desert.
`SAHARA' FAR FROM A DRY READ by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
In particular, Boudjedra's conclusion about the psycho-pathology of the FIS membership deserves further study, for in his words: "Between the fire at the Reichstag in 1933 and the fire in the little apartment in Ouargla in 1989 [the house of a widowed woman suspected of receiving male guests was set on fire, costing the life of her baby and causing third degree burns to her face], there is more than an analogy.
FIS de la haine by Zoubir, Yahia H. / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
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