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…
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A symbol of the Algerian liberation movement, Drif presented her memoir Inside the Battle of Algiers at NYU last week.