Wassyla Tamzali

Wassyla Tamzali (born 1941) is an Algerian writer, lawyer and feminist.^[1]

Biography

The daughter of an Algerian father and a Spanish mother,^[2] she was born in Béjaïa.^[1] She was raised in a Muslim family but was not forced to wear the hijab.^[2] From 1966 to 1977, she was a lawyer in the Algerian court system. In 1979, she joined UNESCO, responsible for the program dealing with violations of women's rights. In 1989, she became part of the leadership of the Socialist Forces Front. She was a founding member of the Collectif Maghreb Égalité in 1992. In 1996, she became director of the program for promoting the status of women in the Mediterranean area. In 2001, she became vice-president of the Forum international des Femmes de la Méditerranée. In 2006, she became executive director for the Collectif Maghreb Égalité.^[1]

Selected works^[1]

• En attendant Omar Gatlato (1979)
• Abzim, with Claude Ber (1984)
• Une éducation algérienne. De la révolution à la revanche des tribu (2007)
• Une femme en colère (2009)
• Burqa? (2010)

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