Women of Algiers in Their Apartment

Name: Women of Algiers in Their Apartment
Author: Assia Djebar

by Assia Djebar

Portraits of Algerian women's lives, struggles, and creative resistance in their homes

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Assia Djebar

Algerian novelist and filmmaker who wrote in French about Algerian women's histories and the violence of colonialism and independence. Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade is her masterwork.

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