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I, Nadia, Wife of a Terrorist

I, Nadia, Wife of a Terrorist

Gacemi, Baya
Cote, Paul
Burke III, Edmund

Paperback

Series: France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization

Biographies GeneralAfrican HistoryInternational Relations

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 0803271247
ISBN13: 9780803271241
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: Jun 1 2006
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.48
Language: English
The Algerian journalist Baya Gacemi takes a dangerous political step in writing the autobiography of a young Algerian woman whom she met through a program for female victims of Islamist violence in Algiers. Nadia, from a small town in central Algeria that has been especially affected by the struggle between Islamist terrorists and the authorities, married a local hooligan whose rebellious spirit she found irresistible. Unfortunately, her husband was already transforming himself from petty criminal to foot soldier and then local emir of the Islamic Action Group. Nadia's ensuing nightmare lasted over four years. As a result of the growing polarization between Islamists and the local government Nadia had become an outcast reviled by relatives and threatened by neighbors.

By 1996, with Nadia pregnant and destitute and her husband hunted by government agents, her parents expelled her from their home. Gacemi provides a human face to the cultural wars that have torn Algeria and the Middle East apart, revealing the roots of terrorism and the impact of the nightmarish struggle of the women caught up in it.

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