#wahran

[jmmll]

📍 MERIDIEN, Oran, Algeria 🇩🇿

[sissa-arrows]

Sometimes I remember that white chick who decided to quote a tweet of mine where I was saying that it’s fucked up to talk about settlers being traumatized by decolonization… and like she decided to bring up her settler grandma “trauma” into it. Algerians were calling her out and then this Algerian girl said “Oh your grandma is a pied noir? I’m a wahrania” and this will forever be my favorite tweet of all time.

The historical reference was perfect and over a year later I still think about this answer.

Context: During French colonialism in Algeria Wahran (Oran) was a settler majority town. It was a region very violent against indigenous Algerians and the segregation was worst than in the rest of the country. When the war of liberation started it got worst the settlers became more violent. Even buying food was dangerous and Algerians from Wahran had to send group of men to be able to go buy food for the neighborhood safely, you couldn’t send a child or a woman or even go alone as a man it wasn’t safe. Toward the end of the war when they realized that Algeria would be independent and the OAS was created (a white supremacist terrorist group) they found a lot of support in the settler population of Wahran. It was so horrible for Algerians that at the independence they attacked the settlers who were still in Wahran to kick them out. Colonial nostalgia means they call what happened a “massacre” and always talk about how traumatizing it was. Wahran is THE “traumatic” experience they love to mention so much. So the girl saying “your grandma is a settler? I’m a Wahrania” is just so freaking sweet.

[sidahmedmezara]

#nike #dzpower #wahran #bethioua (à Bethioua Ed Douamis, Oran, Algeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnB8unfNy_M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mydearalgeria]

Algeria. Market day in Wahran El Bahia, 1970s. 

Private Diapo from @mysticdiapo

[abdelbassetkabar]

Oran #sunset #wahran #dztourism #dz #algeria🇩🇿 (à Oran, Algeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTwvmF3MxeD/?utm_medium=tumblr

[algerianity]

📍 Boulevard El Amir Abdelkader, Oran | Algeria 🇩🇿

[nnnorthaaafrican]

Quartier Saint-Pierre. Ex-rue de Lille.

Patrick Zachmann.

[bouba-baker]

HAPPY EASTER FROM SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL OF ORAN (CATHÉDRALE DU SACRÉ-CŒUR D'ORAN) The church building was built between 1904 and 1913 to the design of Albert Ballu the architect of the Government of Algeria who designed the railway station of Oran. The structure of the church itself is of reinforced concrete, which made it the first church built out of this in French overseas territories. It was dedicated on 30 April 1930. The cathedral became a regional library in 1984, then a public library in 1996. (source:Wikipedia) #sacrecoeur #sacredheart #church #cathedral #oran #wahran #algeria #algerie #architecture #albertballu #architecturephotography #photography #algeriatravel #topalgeriaphoto #tourismalgeria #photooftheday #travel #travelphotography #unlimitedalgeria #i_algeria #instagood #beautiful #archilovers #architectureporn #like4like #l4l #wanderlust #bouba #boubablog (at Oran, Algeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwhyZMlAqbu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ds0kk4a5azac