Maghreb – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Ernst Jünger and the Libyan revolution

Chunks of Heliopolis and Eumeswil dealing with smartphones, language and power meet up with the Gaddafis.

Arthur Ditchfield, The Casbah and the Ravine of the Centaur, Algiers (1873), at the <a href='http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O125738/oil-painting-the-casbah-and-the-ravine/'>V&A</a>

Competing Amazigh and Arabic etymologies of “beur”

And “beurette,” of course, this being the Year of Zahia Dehar, who sounds like she may escape from being shagged up the bum by Pierre Woodman.

Beurettes with their backs against the wall in Aytré, Poitou-Charentes, CC by <a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/llansades/4029997524/'>Thierry Llansades</a>.