""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."--Publisher's website."
""Celle qui se dissimule, dans ce récit, sous le nom de Nadia, tombe amoureuse d'un jeune homme turbulent, chapardeur et coureur. Elle l'épouse, mais, entre-temps, Ahmed est devenu un islamiste radical, membre puis bientôt 'émir' local du Gia, l'organisation responsable des massacres qui ensanglantent l'Algérie. Ce qu'elle raconte, après que son mari a été tué dans un accrochage avec l'armée, c'est sa vie de 'mère des croyants', en réalité cantinière et bonne à tout faire d'une bande terroriste, fuyant bientôt de planque en planque. C'est aussi la vie au jour le jour d'un village des environs d'Alger, dont la population, d'abord favorable aux 'barbus', finit par se retourner contre eux, excédée par leur sauvagerie. C'est l'imprévisible transformation d'un petit voyou en tueur fanatique. C'est, enfin, le jeu de cache-cache tragique et marqué en même temps, de part et d'autre, par un amateurisme assez stupéfiant, auquel se livrent forces gouvernementales et islamiste. A la mort de son mari, Nadia, à la fois complice et victime, hésitera entre tristesse et soulagement : 'Heureuse d'être sortie du cauchemar dans lequel je vivais, j'aurais pour autant souhaiter que ma vie d'épouse ne se termine pas de cette manière. Que le père de mon fils, avec qui je n'avais vécu que trois mois, et que j'avais aimé passionnément, ne finisse pas jeté, corps sans tête, dans un ravin de la Mitidja.' ""--Back cover."
"Nadia, a young Algerian woman, chronicles the four years she spent living in terror as the wife of a local emir of the Islamic Action Group."
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