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Yesterday I read Maurice El Medioni's book, A Memoir: From Oran to Marseilles (1938-1992 (a terrific resource) and learned this fascina...

A YouTube video published on December 31, 2015, featuring Maurice El Medioni on keyboards and vocals, and Neta Elkayam handling the voc...

1. A very nice tribute to Jewish North African musicians by the Israeli writer Ophir Toubul was published on October 9, 2014 by +972 . Toub...

Blaoui Houari was born 1926 in the M'dina Jadida district of Oran. He became familiar with bedoui music by listening to records a...

 When I was writing up my previous post on Lili Boniche I was hunting for more bibliographical information. And I found this short ...

I was poking around on ebay earlier today and found this photo, from the back cover of a Line Monty album that was for sale (for more than I...

The Jewish-Algerian pianist from Oran, Maurice El Medioni, has a Youtube channel that I just discovered. There are many gems here: Mauric...

 I've been blogging about the film El Gusto ever since I met the director, Safinez Bousbia, in Essaouira in November 2007. The film was...

Teaser for a documentary about the great Algerian-Jewish pianist Maurice El Medioni. Medioni is also part of El Gusto. He has a great sense ...

In anticipation of a future post on the film El Gusto , which is out now in France, this video of the Jewish Algerian master of Andalusian m...