"I walked past my school again, it was on rue Saint Jacques, and I cried a little bit, that's where I grew up. It's very funny because it was in Paris that I learned to love my country, which is Algeria, and Egypt, and music, and the Arab world."
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Warda, "the Algerian rose": "It was in Paris that I learned to love my country, which is Algeria, and Egypt and music",By Daniel Caux, retrived on 11/20/1984
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Warda Al-Jazairia
Warda Al-Jazairia (Arabic: وردة الجزائرية); born Warda Mohammed Ftouki (); 22 July 1939 – 17 May 2012) was an Algerian singer. She was well known for her Egyptian Arabic songs and music. Her name was sometimes shortened to just Warda ( meaning "rose") or as "The Algerian rose" in the Arab world.
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