Algeria is a country in North Africa bordered on the north by the Mediterranean Sea. Covering an area of 2,381,741 square kilometers, Algeria is the largest country in Africa and the tenth largest in the world. Its capital is the city of Algiers. Algiers also holds the record for the city with the largest population in the country.

The cover photo in this podcast is of an Algerian teen artist who adopted her style of painting from Picasso and Matisse. In the 1940s, a 16-year-old girl captured the minds of the art world’s elite. The self-taught artist, Baya Mahieddine (1931-1988) — known as Baya — was finally being celebrated in the first North American exhibition of her work, at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery, March 21st 2018. How timely that this Podcast falls on the anniversary of that special launch.