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FOREWORD
BY M.-DOMINIQUE CRAPON DE CAPRONA - USA
The issue 14 of the Sloughi Review is Alla Kacimi el Hassani follows with his
focusing on the Sloughis of the Tlemcen account of a special seminar about the
area in northwestern Algeria. Algerian Sloughi that took place in May
2022 in the Biology Institute of the
It starts with my tribute to Joseph University of Tlemcen. He tells us how the
Mangelsdorf, who’s passing one year ago Sloughi was presented as a national
has disheartened his friends. treasure in need of protection and how
people were introduced to the breed on
I explain how much he helped us and how the campus of the university.
he opened our western eyes to how
Sloughis live and look like in western This seminar resulted in the first study by
Algeria today. eight researchers of the Algerian Sloughi’s
morphology which I summarized right
Joseph Mangelsdorf had delivered a after Alla Kacimi’s article. A measurement
remarkable photographic documentary, study which aligns with other studies of
following years of political volatility in dog breeds. This study’s results show the
Algeria that made it difficult to access that differences and similarities of Sloughis
country. A legacy that is presented in the across 3 main regions, Northwest, North
photo album at the end of this issue. Center and Northeast of Algeria.
It is followed by a summary about the
Morphometry of Tlemcen’s Algerian
sighthound, a study done 2 years before
the seminar.
Wishing good reading.
