Assia Djebar

Fatima-Zohra Imalayène, known as Assia Djebar, was born on 30 June 1936, the daughter of a schoolteacher who taught French. The first Muslim Algerian woman admitted to the École normale supérieure de Sèvres, she was expelled from it in 1956 for following the Algerian students' strike, and published her first novel at the age of twenty-one. She taught history in Algiers, directed the centre for Francophone studies at Louisiana State University from 1997 to 2001, then taught in New York. Elected to the Académie française in 2005, the first woman writer from the Maghreb to enter it, she died in Paris on 6 February 2015 and is buried in Cherchell.

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• CinemaThe Nouba of the Women of Mount ChenouaLa Nouba des femmes du mont ChenouaAssia Djebar · 1977Cinema