Biskra

Twenty-six people were Monday sentenced in a court in the southern town of Biskra for belonging to a terrorist organisation, violence against the security forces and for possession of explosives.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

We travelled a lot that year — from Woolloomooloo Bay to Biskra.

Tender is the Night 2003

On his way back to Al-Qayrawan, 'Uqbah was attacked near Biskra in present-day Algeria on orders from Kusaylah by Berbers supported by Byzantine contingents.

Archive 2001-01-01 Lionheart 2001

On his way back to Al-Qayrawan, 'Uqbah was attacked near Biskra in present-day Algeria on orders from Kusaylah by Berbers supported by Byzantine contingents.

Islam's War to Save the World Lionheart 2001

Now, he knows as well as anyone — for is he not "Reader in French at the University of London" — that André Gide never had a mistress; an occasional encounter with the dark-skinned Meriem or En-Barka in the early Nineties at Biskra does not make of either a mistress.

He Never Had a Mistress O'Brien, Justin 1966

They were living in a small town on the rim of the desert near Biskra.

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Various

This we found in a house belonging to a son of the caid of Biskra.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

Only once before had such a scene been witnessed in Biskra, when some years previously the wife of a French general had visited the oasis.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

It was on the white, glaring walls of the casino at Biskra that the news was first bulletined for our eyes.

On the Stairs Henry B. Fuller

Waram went to Biskra and from there to the village where Grimshaw lived.

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Various