Algiers 1 University

On 7 June 1962 – just a month ahead of the Algerian independence referendum – the Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS), the movement of colonists opposing Algerian independence, set fire to the library building, destroying 500,000 books.[4] The destruction of these books was seen as a scorched earth tactic across the Arab world. The effect on other countries in the region can be seen through commemorative stamps. Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Algeria itself introduced stamps depicting either the burning of a book, or of the library itself. It showed the savagery of the anti-independence movement would extend to removing and indeed destroying culture so long as Algeria intended to create its own national culture.[5]

The library holds 800,000 volumes.[6]

• Albert Camus (1913–1960), writer and the awardee of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
• Lakhdar Brahimi (1934), UN diplomat and Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Elias Zerhouni, Algerian-born American physician scientist radiologist and biomedical engineer.
• Saddek Rabah, University Professor and academic researcher.

• List of colleges and universities
• List of universities in Algeria

• University of Algiers Website (in Arabic, English, and French)
• Faculty of Islamic Sciences (in Arabic)