El Biar
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El Biar (from the arabic "الأبيار" meaning "The Wells") is a suburb of Algiers, Algeria. It is located in the administrative constituency of Bouzaréah in the Governorate of Greater Algiers and has a population of 52,582 inhabitants as of the 1998 census. Its postal code is 16030 and its municipal code is 1610.
[edit] Notable Residents
- Khalil Boukedjane, Football player
- Eldridge Cleaver, American civil rights leader & author
- Jacques Derrida, Philosopher
- Dahmane El Harrachi, Chaabi singer
- Mohamed Hamdoud, Football player
- Tarek Lazizi, Retired football player
- Djamel Menad, Retired football player
- Lahcène Nazef, Football player
- Issam Nima, Long jumper
- Georges Rochegrosse, French Painter
- Rouiched, Actor & Comedian
- Abderrahmane Soukhane, Retired football player
- Reda Taliani, Raï singer
- Hàm Nghi, eighth Emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn Dynasty