Assia Djebar
1936 – 2015 · Algeria · Literature, History
Novelist and filmmaker of Algerian women's silenced history.
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- Mariama Bâ
1929 – 1981 · Literature
So Long a Letter's epistolary feminism precedes Djebar's histories of Algerian women.
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