Ahlam Mosteghanemi

Ahlam Mosteghanemi was born on 13 April 1953 in Tunis, where her father, an Algerian nationalist activist, had settled; the family returned to Algeria after independence. Still a schoolgirl, she hosted a literary programme on Algerian radio that made her known, and in 1973 published a first collection of poems. A graduate in Arabic literature of the University of Algiers, she married the Lebanese journalist Georges El Rassi in Paris and defended a thesis at the Sorbonne, before settling in Beirut. Her novels in Arabic, gathered in a trilogy, have been translated into English and French.

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• NovelThe Bridges of Constantineذاكرة الجسدAhlam Mosteghanemi · 1993Literature