Assia Djebar was born in 1936. A novelist and filmmaker, she published La Soif at twenty. Her novels reflect a concern with Arab women’s language, expressed in the language that both freed and deracinated her – French. They include La Soif (The Mischief, 1958), Femmes d’Alger (Women of Algiers in their Apartment, 1989), Fantasia: an Algerian Cavalcade (1993) and L’Amour la fantasia (1985).

Assia Djebar's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises one article.