Elaine Mokhtefi
✓ Source-basedrisingAlgerian activist and author born in New York (*1928)
Elaine Mokhtefi is an American and Algerian activist, translator, and writer. Born in New York, Mokhtefi began working as a translator for anti-racist and anti-colonial activist movements after moving to Paris in her twenties.
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For anyone living in Paris, the Algerian war was inescapable.
Elaine comments about the war in Algeria
In the 60s, we had the impression that what we did could have an impact
Mokhtefi speaks on ending colonialism in Algeria
We felt that we were on the edge of a new world. It was the end of colonialism; the Cold War had only begun.
Mokhtefi speaks on ending colonialism in Algeria
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Elaine Mokhtefi is an American and Algerian activist, translator, and writer. Born in New York, Mokhtefi began working as a translator for anti-racist and anti-colonial activist movements after moving to Paris in her twenties. She supported Algerian independence efforts, then lived in Algeria from 1962 until she was forced to leave the country in 1974. Her memoir of her time there, Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers, was published by Verso Books in 2018.
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