Tuareg People - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• The Tuareg are the antagonists of the French Foreign Legion in Percival Christopher Wren's 1924 adventure novel Beau Geste and the films that were based on it.
• Spanish author Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa's novel Tuareg (1980) was his most critically and commercially successful, with global sales in excess of 5,000,000 copies. It was adapted into a 1984 movie starring Mark Harmon, Tuareg – The Desert Warrior.
• The 2005 film Sahara featured a fictionalised group of Tuareg as a faction in a civil war underway in Mali.
• Bruce Sterling used a fictionalised Tuareg tribe in his novel Islands in the Net.
• David Ball's 1999 novel Empires of Sand tells the story of French and Tuareg cousins.
• French author J. M. G. Le Clézio's novel Desert tells of the last days of the Tuareg, the desert nomads known as the "Blue People".
• In 2003 Volkswagen introduced a new SUV named the Touareg.
• In the video game Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War, Tuareg are available to the player as mercenary troops.
• The Fremen of Frank Herbert's Dune saga are heavily based on the Tuareg. The nomadic lifestyles, garb, customs, religion, and culture are regarded as similar.
• Tuareg characters feature in episodes of the second season of the Cinemax series Strike Back.