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 ...

Muslim lawyer defends women’s rights Based on Islamic law and tribal traditions, Algerian law discriminates against women in terms of marriage, children’s custody and education, divorce and more.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Jan. 28, 2009— -- The CIA's station chief at its sensitive post in Algeria is under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for allegedly raping at least two Muslim women who claim he ...