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Book Event: Algiers, Third World Capital – Elaine Mokhtefi in conversation with Adam Shatz

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City

A child of the Great Depression, Elaine Mokhtefi left the United States in the early 1950s. She was on the run from McCarthyism and from the provincialism she'd encountered as a student in segregated Georgia. After time in Paris, she moved to Algiers which, following independence in 1962, has become a beacon and safe haven for radicals all around the…