El Biar
Place in Algiers, Algeria
Ministry of Energy and Mining in El Biar by night
El Biar (from Arabic "الأبيار", meaning "The Wells") is a suburb of Algiers , Algeria . It is located in the administrative constituency of Bouzaréah in the Algiers Province . As of the 1998 census, it has a population of 52,582 inhabitants. The suburb's postal code is 16030 and its municipal code is 1610.
Notable people
René Aleman (1913– 1989), French weightlifter
Khalil Boukedjane , football player
Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1937– 2021), 5th President of Algeria (1999– 2019)
Saïd Bouteflika , Algerian politician and academic, brother of Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Eldridge Cleaver (1935–1998), civil rights leader & author
Jacques Derrida (1930–2004), philosopher
Dahmane El Harrachi , chaabi singer
Marcelle Laloë , (1884–1974), wife of Hàm Nghi
Hàm Nghi , eighth Emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn Dynasty
Mohamed Hamdoud , football player
Tarek Lazizi , retired football player
Djamel Menad , retired football player
Lahcène Nazef , football player
Abderrahmane Nekli , diplomat
Issam Nima , long jumper
Georges Rochegrosse , French painter
Rouiched , actor and comedian
Mustapha Ayad , actor and comedian
Moïse Tshombe , Congolese politician put under house arrest