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 ...

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.

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 ...

In his book, Burning the Veil: The Algerian War and the ‘Emancipation’ of Muslim Women, 1954-1962, Neil MacMaster notes that some of the women who took part in these ceremonies were very poor ...

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.

These words, written in 1959 by Algerian revolutionary Frantz Fanon, described the deep frustration of the country’s French rulers at the Muslim woman’s insistence on covering her hair with ...

Muslim women are often criticised for their lack of political involvement, but Algerian women have embraced both anti-colonial and feminist movements. Algerian feminism and the long struggle for ...

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 ...

In 1999 Kamel Daoud (Mesra, Algeria, 1970) was a young journalist for Le Quotidien d'Orane who came face to face with the brutality of the civil war ravaging his country since the early 1990s.