Women of Algiers in Their Apartment

by Assia Djebar

Blurb

Women of Algiers in Their Apartment French: Femmes d'Alger dans leur Appartement is a 1980 novel by the Algerian writer Assia Djebar. It is a collection of short stories celebrating the strength and dignity of Algerian women of the past and the present. The interweaving stories of the lives of three Muslim Algerian women. Assia Djebar wrote her Femme d'Alger dans leur appartement after her inspiration of Delacroix's painting The Women of Algiers.

First Published

1980

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