The Arab neighborhood El Koubia is an architectural ensemble of authentic Arab-Muslim style. It was built between 1948 and 1949 by the French authorities and for what they call the "natives". Architecture is reminiscent of the meadows that of Andalusian houses in the Muslim presence. This assembly takes a semi-circular shape.
Very near the housing to each other, are opened by small windows and lost forms "arcadières".
In the center of the city, there is a mosque, a hammam that residents call also "Turkish Hammam".
The name "Koubia" refers to the numerous small domes capping houses of this neighborhood. The houses provide access to a wide enough space in the middle of which stands a fountain; this space acts as a so-called "Dar El Wast."
Written on the walls of some houses in the city of Arab, rejecting and denouncing the French colonialist policy, are still living witness of the events of war for national liberation and August 20, 1955.
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