Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement

Author

Assia Djebar

Language

French

Year

1980

First Pub.

Algeria

Genre

Stories / Tales / Myths (Collection)

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Women of Algiers in Their Apartment French: Femmes d'Alger dans leur Appartement is a 1980 novel by the Algerian writer Assia Djebar. It is a collection of short stories celebrating the strength and dignity of Algerian women of the past and the present. It interweaves the stories of the lives of three Muslim Algerian women. Assia Djebar's inspiration to write Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement came from Delacroix's painting The Women of Algiers.