1. Mohamed Choukri
(Articles/Author)

...he engaged in a variety of jobs (one of which involved a months-long sojourn serving a French family in the Algerian Rif) to supplement his tyrannical father's meagre income. Following one of many fam...

2. Hammoudi Abdelwahab
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Abdelwahab Hammoudi is an Algerian writer ,screenwriter and filmmaker. Thing rare in Algeria,he writes directly in English He has s

3. Anouar Benmalek
(Articles/Author)

...ce. After the 1988 riots in Algeria in protest of government policies, he became one of the founders of the Algerian Committee Against Torture.   ...

4. Rachid Boudjedra
(Articles/Author)

...is work has been very successful and controversial in the Maghreb (being considered the 'enfant terrible of Algerian literature' according to MEMRI) and in France, but has not yet been translated into...

5. Leila Djabali
(Articles/Author)

...abali was among the young intellectuals imprisoned by the French colonial authorities for their part in the Algerian liberation struggle. Her poem 'For My Torturer, Lieutenant D...' was written in the...

6. The Forbidden Woman
(Articles/Book)

... Synopsis: The Forbidden Woman tells the story of Sultana, an Algerian woman doctor who, after years spent living in France, returns to her native village...

7. Jean Sénac
(Articles/Author)

...l waits to be discovered by the English-reading world. Maybe this is, in part, because he wasn't French but Algerian. He was born in 1926, into an extremely poor family whom the father promptly a...

8. The Abductor
(Articles/Book)

...Review: "A little jewel of a book, The Abductor is a unique novel that stands out on the Algerian literary landscape." — Le Nouvel Observateur ...

9. Assia Djebar
(Articles/Author)

...onne. In 1958, she travelled to Tunis, where she worked as a reporter alongside Frantz Fanon, travelling to Algerian refugee camps on the Tunisian border with the Red Cross and Crescent. In 1962, she ...

10. Nacira Mohammedi
(Articles/Author)

Biography: Nacira Mohammedi is an Algerian poet, journalist and radio broadcaster on cultural affairs. She publishes her poetry in newspapers

11. Faïza Guène
(Articles/Author)

...ntary, while studying sociology at Paris VIII, at St. Dénis, where she grew up. Guène’s Algerian parents, from Oran, made their home initially in Bobigny, where she was born. She g...

12. Kiffe Kiffe Demain
(Articles/Book)

...ntary, while studying sociology at Paris VIII, at St. Dénis, where she grew up. Guène’s Algerian parents, from Oran, made their home initially in Bobigny, where she was born. She g...

13. Ahlam Mosteghanemi
(Articles/Author)

...r. By the time she was born, in 1953, her father had already been imprisoned after the 1945 riots. When the Algerian war broke out in 1954, her family home in Tunisia became a central meeting point fo...

14. The Attack
(Articles/Book)

... a man in anguish and a world out of control. Yasmina Khadra (the nom de plume of Mohammed Moulessehoul, an Algerian exile) has written a thoughtful, thought-provoking book, and Stefan Rudnicki's perf...

15. Double Blank
(Articles/Book)

Former high-ranking Algerian army officer Khadra, who's now an exile in France and who first used a female pseudonym to avoid military censorship, presents a brutal and cynical look at his native coun

16. The Wretched of the Earth
(Articles/Book)

...e;s de la Terre, first published 1961) is Frantz Fanon's most famous work, written during and regarding the Algerian struggle for independence from colonial rule. As a psychiatrist, Fanon explored the...

17. Frantz Fanon
(Articles/Author)

... with his patients' cultural backgrounds. He also trained nurses and interns. Following the outbreak of the Algerian revolution in November 1954 he joined the FLN liberation front (Front de Lib&eacute...

18. Yasmina Khadra
(English Pen Features/Featured Authors)

... Biography: Yasmina Khadra is the nom de plume of the former Algerian army officer Mohammed Moulessehoul. Moulessehoul, an officer in the A...

19. Algeria
(English Pen Features/Featured Countries)

...France in 1962, Algeria has swung between democratic elections, civil war and terrorism.  Modern Algerian literature, split between Arabic and French, has been strongly influenced by the co...

20. Djibouti
(English Pen Features/Featured Countries)

The history of Djibouti, recorded in poetry and songs of its nomadic peoples, goes back thousands of years. Ablé immigrants from Arabia migrated to what is now Djibouti in about the 3rd century B.C