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Women of Algiers in Their Apartment

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'Women of Algiers in Their Apartment' is a 1980 novel by the Algerian writer Assia Djebar.Bremner, Charles. "[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/european_football/article1083768.ece French 'immortals' get a history lesson]", The Times Online (June 23, 2006). It is a collection of short stories celebrating the strength and dignity of Algerian women of the past and the present. It interweaves the stories of the lives of three Muslim Algerian women. Assia Djebar's inspiration to write 'Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement' came from Delacroix's painting 'The Women of Algiers'.

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The book is a collection of short stories about the lives of pre-colonial, colonial, and postcolonial women at various levels of Algerian society. It is a work about the compartmentalization of women in Algeria and the "harems"social, economic, symbolicinto which they are placed.

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