Assia Djebar

Autobiographical novel weaving together the author's childhood memories with the history of French colonization of Algeria, exploring women's voices silenced by history.

Nine stories and an essay about Algerian women before and after independence, exploring how women were promised liberation by the revolution and then confined again. Named for Delacroix's famous painting.

Third volume of the Algerian Quartet, weaving together the story of a filmmaker's love affair and the 146 BCE destruction of Carthage, exploring how women's voices are lost to history and recovered.