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Her staff, with the help of the artist, used stainless-steel molds to recreate the model of the desert city of Ghardaia, which Mr. Attia designed as a commentary on colonialism.

The Algerian city of Ghardaia in the scorching Sahara Desert is a classic example of a city built from earth.

According to Le Monde, Dr Fekhar's heath had been already weakened by long hunger strikes during a two-year detention after deadly clashes in Ghardaia in 2015.

His arrest in March followed an interview in which he criticised "segregationist" attitudes towards Mozabites in Ghardaia, the paper said.

The lawyer for Kamel Eddine Fekhar, a doctor in Ghardaia, which is where much of Algeria’s minority Mozabite population lives, died on Tuesday in a hospital in Blida, where he had been recently transferred.