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Each of my books is a step towards the understanding of the North African identity and an attempt to enter modernity.

— Assia Djebar

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Like many writers, I use my culture and I collect several imaginary worlds.”

First it was the language of the enemy,, “then it became a kind of stepmother, in relation to the maternal tongue of Arabic.

there were only men in the streets of Algiers.

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