Sources: الموقع الرسمي للمديرية العامة للوظيفة العمومية (Alger) and Algeria banks holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Algerian direction générale de la Fonction publique has announced that Friday, November 1st, 2013, had been declared a non-working public holiday, on account of the upcoming "fête de la Révolution". [full story]