Algeria’s population is 99 percent Muslim. As in many nations in North Africa and the Middle East, women have broad political and professional rights, yet Sharia-based laws curtail their rights ...

In the context of the Muslim world, Algeria is only second to Senegal (about 40 percent) with the highest ratio of women MPs. Nevertheless, Algerian politics are highly authoritarian.

Algerian women bravely waged a battle against colonialism and patriarchy. Today, their legacy continues to inspire a new generation in the struggle for justice. On a late September afternoon in ...

Policies—whether in the West or in the Muslim world—are imposed on women, not developed with them or for them. How they dress ...

Marnia Lazreg, wide-ranging scholar of women in Muslim world, dies at 83. In her studies of power dynamics, she decried the traditions of Islamic coverings as oppressive.

Muslim women are the largest group of the 3 million people displaced by Boko Haram ... Libya, Algeria, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Egypt, Tunisia, Mauritania, Chad, Cameroon, Central ...

In his 1959 book A Dying Colonialism, anticolonial thinker Franz Fanon emphasised that the control of Muslim women was crucial to the French colonial project in Algeria. He wrote that by forcing ...