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Raffour

Raffour is a village in Kabylia in M’Chedallah town of Bouira province (wilaya) in Algeria. The village is called Iwaquren in Berber language, which refers to Djurdjura Mountain, where the original village of the population is located.

Before independency of Algeria, Raffour is named in French Les Toiles referring to canvas, installed by the French colonists as a concentration camp for indigenous population after bombardment in May 6th 1957 of the two original villages Iɣzer iwaquren and n Taddert lejdid constituting the whole village of iwaquren (lɛarc iwaquren) in Djurdjura Mountain. Currently, often confused by local people with the word l’étoiles which means stars.

Scientists from Raffour

The village provided hundreds of engineers and dozens of researchers, who left the country and exiled to countries like France, Canada or the United States, due to a lack of state's encouragement. In particular, Fouad SAHRAOUI, at plasma physics laboratory in Ecole Polytechnique, France , Mohand KECHADI, at school of computer science computer science building, Dublin Mohammed KECHADI, researcher in electrochemistry and microfluidics or Boutemeur MADJID, at the laboratory of systems and materials for the mechatronics and also member at CERN .