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Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter

Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York City

The New Book Series at the Hagop Kevorkian Center features new publications in the interdisciplinary field of Middle East Studies. This gripping insider’s account chronicles how and why the author, as a young French-educated woman in 1950s Algiers, joined the armed wing of Algeria’s national liberation movement to combat her country’s French occupiers. When the movement’s leaders, driven underground by…