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Yezza, who lives in France, was arrested July 16 at the airport in Biskra as he tried to return home after attending his father’s funeral.

Matisse’s “Blue Nude: Memory of Biskra” “forced Picasso to radically rethink what he was doing” while he was working on what would become his groundbreaking “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.”

Five fans were killed when their van slid off a road east of Algiers, four died in a car accident in Biskra and three people died in other towns.

It was only when some chance word of his led Christina to ask him a question about Biskra, that the flow of his eloquence suddenly ceased.

"Your mention of Biskra brought back so many pictures of the past, and—I was looking at them instead of going on with my story."