Biographies: Assia Djebar - Director

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An Algerian writer and director, born as Fatima-Zohra Imalayène in Cherchell, Algeria. She published her first novel, "The Thirst," before she was twenty years old when she was a student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in France, then she studied French literature at New York University. After the independence of Algeria in 1962, she decided to return to Algeria to study history at the University of Algiers. She stopped writing until 1980 when she emigrated again to France, but she directed the documentaries The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting (1983) and The Nouba of the Women of Mount Chenoua (1979). Her fictional works include "Algerian White," "Strasbourg Nights," and "Women of Algiers in Their Apartment." She resided in France until her death on 6 February 2015.

• 5 September 2023
• Shaimaa Saied