country: Algeria

Chaim and Me (A chapter from novel)

Due to the imminent end of my summer break, and shortly before resuming my work at the Teacher Training College at the beginning of the third week of September, I reassured my wife, Zuleika al-Nadra, that we would not delay another day. She had already complained to me that there was a lot waiting for […]

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Deception or Dreams of the Man Who Didn’t Lose His Shadow  

Was it merely deception or something more?   The paths were so exhausting, and the days were so hard! Wouldn’t it have been better to take the short-cuts? Nothing is of any use now. All that matters is that he’s home at last, and his eyes have embraced the sea after an arduous journey of […]

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Waciny Laredj

Waciny Laredj is an Algerian writer and academic, who was born in 1954 in the village of Sidi Boujnane. He is a Professor at the Sorbonne University in Paris and the Central University of Algeria, having settled in Paris in 1994.  Laredj is considered one of the most prominent writers in the Arab literary world today. […]

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Habib Sayah

Habib Sayah is an Algerian writer and novelist, born in 1950. He obtained his BA in Literature from Oran University in 1980 and worked in Institutes of Technological Education. He has published 10 novels, including four translated into French: That Longing (1997), Tamassikht (2002), That Love (2002) and The Guilty Ones…The Colour of Their Blood on My Hands (2009). He has also translated books […]

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