that number had grown to more than 70 percent of women. Rabea Kerzabi during her days working in Algeria’s government in 1996 [Photo courtesy Rabea Kerzabi] The daughter of revolutionary ...

a quiet revolution is under way: women are emerging as an economic and political force unheard of in the rest of the Arab world. Women make up 70 percent of Algeria’s lawyers and 60 percent of ...

But the traditional quarter is also the birthplace of Algerian female emancipation. It was in the Casbah that women joined men to fight the French during the war for independence in the late 1950s.

Algerian women bravely waged a battle against colonialism and patriarchy. Today, their legacy continues to inspire a new generation in the struggle for justice. On a late September afternoon in ...

ALGIERS, Algeria — In this tradition-bound nation scarred by a brutal Islamist-led civil war that killed more than 100,000, a quiet revolution is under way: Women are emerging as an economic and ...

Last month also marked the anniversary of the assassination of Nabila Djahnine, a women's rights activist killed during the civil war in the 1990s. Djahnine fought for the rights of Algerian women ...

The number of women in the legislative council has gradually increased since Algeria's independence from France in 1962. That year, female fighters against French colonialism, including Meriem ...