Herstory and Algeria’s Zina: A Dual-Reading of Assia Djebar’s: Women of Algiers in their Apartment, by Alexandra Nargiz Jérôme

Notes

The author would like to thank Dr Nadje al-Ali and Dr Mohammed Saleh-Omri at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies at University of Exeter for their helpful critiques of this article when it was first written as a Master’s Thesis.
French colonial prison used to house Algerian prisoners of war.

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