Rai, an Algerian musical genre newly registered by the UN agency as part of the world's 'intangible cultural heritage', has accompanied the country's social changes for a century Cheb Khaled played a ...

From the heart of the desert and Bedouin life in western Algeria, specifically among the nomadic tribes around Oran, Raï was born as a traditional music overflowing with folk poetry. The earliest Raï ...