Rai-related vocabulary

Slam - Kisses

Ruj - Red wine

Sakra - Drinking alcohol

Mkhabbat - Getting drunk

Tahwas I bulevar - Walking across the street

Tamazight - Berber language

Kabylia - Berber region

Chaabi - Algerian folk songs that bacame protest songs

Kasa - Algerian national anthem that Lounes re-wrote

Mathoub Lounes - One of the first popular rai singers, who was assassinated in Algeria in 1998, allegedly by fundamentalist Islamic groups; his death sparked massive violent riots in Algeria

SSF - Socialist Forces Front; Berber militant group

GIA - Armed Islamic Forces; Islamic fundamentalist group that allegedly killed Lounes

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