The Role and Memory of Women Anti-Colonial Resistance Fighters in Algeria
https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/93055747478
Nadja Makhlouf in converstaion with Martin Evans on the photo exhibition "El Moudjahidate, Invisible to Visible", displayed and curated on the website of the Middle East and North Africa at Sussex (MENACS).
Nadja Makhlouf is a French-Algerian photographer and video maker (film director). Her work questions diverse aspects of historical memory, history, social issues and notably the status of women in Algeria. After studying documentary film making at Aix-Marseille University, she is engaged on a long term project exploring the status of women in Algeria, each consisting of a photographic exhibition and a documentary film. The first of these presents photographic portraits of the Kabyle women in today's Algeria. Allah Ghaleb, the film that accompanies it, explores the private day to day life of these women. This film won the Audience Award at the festival Look at the World Cinema in Rouen, France, 2012. Her exhibition presented here - ‘El Moudjahidate: Invisible to Visible: The Role and Memory of Women Anti-Colonial Resistance Fighters in Algeria’ – is a further part of this project.
Martin Evans is Professor of Modern European History at Sussex University and the author (with John Phillips) of Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed (Yale, 2007) and Algeria: France’s Undeclared War (Oxford University Press, 2012). He was the originator and co-curator of the exhibition Paris-Londres. 1962-89. Music Migrations which ran from 12 March 2019 to 5 January 2020 at the French National Museum of the History of Immigration, Paris.