Yasmina Khadra
Algerian writer · Algeria · On the map · Writers · Born 1955 · age 71
Mohammed Moulessehoul, better known by the pen name Yasmina Khadra, is an Algerian author living in France, who writes in French. One of the most famous Algerian novelists in the world, he has written almost 40 novels, and has published in more than 50 countries.
Yasmina Khadra is read about 490 times a day, in 34 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 13 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
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, The night is an ocean, with stars as its waves, and the day is a shore where dreams come to life.
In the darkest moments, it is the power of hope that keeps us going.
Traveling to new places opens our minds, broadens our perspectives, and reminds us of the vastness of the world.
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Khadra has often explored Algerian and other Arab countries' civil wars, depicting Muslim conflicts and reality, the attraction of radical Islamism to those alienated by the incompetence and hypocrisy of politicians, and conflicts between East and West. In his several writings on the Algerian war, he has exposed the regime and the fundamentalist opposition as the joint guilty parties in the country's tragedy.
