home publications > mercury . ... Astronomy Beat . ... World Beat: Algeria . ... Algerian astronomy goes back over a thousand years to the times when scholars such as Al-Bitruji (known as Alpetragius in the West), Ibn-Rushd (Averroes), Al-Marrakushi, and Al- Qusuntini lived in Andalusia and North Africa. ... Four years ago, a dozen Algerian amateurs participated in a two-week astronomy camp in Tunisia; it was supposed to be repeated in Algeria two years ago, but the circumstances prevented that. ...