Within the fields of French history and French colonial history, there has been so much scholarship on colonial Algeria, yet both fields have been largely silent on Algerian women, particularly before the War of Independence (1954-1962).
Sara Rahnama
Sara Rahnama is an Assistant Professor of History at Morgan State University, where she also directs their Program for the Study of the Middle East & North Africa, the first Middle East studies program at a Historically Black College or University in the United States. She is the author of The Future is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria (Cornell University Press, 2023). Her writing has appeared in both academic and popular spaces, including Gender & History, The Washington Post, Middle East Eye, and The Conversation. She was formerly a fellow at the Library of Congress’s Kluge Center.