Assia Djebar is also the author of several novels and a play.

Evocation of the dreams and suffering of women in early Islam.

In this new novel, Djebar brilliantly plays these contradictions against the bloody history of Carthage, a great civilization the Berbers were once compared to, and makes it both a tribute to the loss of Berber culture and a meeting-point ...

First published in 1962, this timeless novel “embodies Djebar's refined literary sensibility, empathy for people caught in times of violent change, and penetrating insights into the complex and painful difficulties between men and ...

In this stunning novel, Assia Djebar intertwines the history of her native Algeria with episodes from the life of a young girl in a story stretching from the French conquest in 1830 to the War of Liberation of the 1950s.

In Algerian White, Assia Djebar weaves a tapestry of the epic and bloody ongoing struggle in her country between Islamic fundamentalism and the post-colonial civil society.

All the stories were written in 1995 and 1996—a time when, by official accounts, some two hundred thousand Algerians were killed in Islamist assassinations and government army reprisals.

En 1988, suite aux violentes manifestations de la jeunesse algérienne contre le pouvoir en place et la montée du fondamentalisme, Assia Djebar écrit 'Loin de Médine' ou les origines de l'Islam vécues du côté des femmes, intimes ou ...

The story of how Isma and Hajila, wives of the same man, escape from the traditional restraints imposed upon the women of their country.