Mokhtar Mokhtefi, Elaine Mokhtefi

I Was a French Muslim

Memories of an Algerian Freedom Fighter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in French as J'âetais franðcais-musulman by âEditions Barzakh, Algiers, in 2016.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Other Press LLC
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 149mm x 218mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9781635421804
• ISBN-10: 1635421802
• Artikelnr.: 62159634

Autorenporträt

Mokhtar Mokhtefi, born in Algeria in 1935, joined the National Liberation Army (ALN) in 1957. Trained as a radio operator, he became head of a communications unit during the Algerian War. After independence, he was elected president of the General Union of Algerian Muslim Students and went on to study sociology and economics at universities in Algiers and Paris. After living in France and publishing several books on North Africa and the Arab world for young adults, he moved to New York in 1994. He died in 2015, and his memoir, I Was a French Muslim, was published in Algeria the following year. Elaine Mokhtefi was born in New York City and raised in small towns in New York and Connecticut. She lived for many years in France and Algeria, where she worked as a translator and journalist, and is the author of Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers. She is the widow of Mokhtar Mokhtefi.