Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Her Books, Life and Interesting Facts

Article about Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Her Books, Life, and Interesting Facts.

Ahlam Mosteghanemi was born (April 13, 1953)

Algerian writer.

Born in Tunisia, where her father was a participant in the Algerian resistance.

She worked for the National Radio, which made her famous as a poet.

I moved to France in the seventies of the last century.

She married a Lebanese journalist, and in the eighties, she obtained a doctorate from the Sorbonne University.

Also, She currently lives in Beirut.

She won Naguib Mahfouz Prize for her novel “Memory in the Flesh” in 1998.

For more than 35 years, Ahlam’s contribution to the Arab literary scene has influenced her acclaimed poetic and emotional work.

Moreover, she has led through her writings Combat:

1- Corruption and injustice

2- Totalitarian and fundamentalist systems

3. New forms of colonialism

4- Distortion of the rights of women.

Ahlam Mosteghanemi created the Malek Haddad Literary Prize in 2001 for the best Algerian writer.

During her interview in June 2001, she expressed her concerns about the lack of Arabic literature in Algeria.

She had hoped the Malek Haddad Literary Prize would encourage more writing in Arabic.

fantastic writer Ahlam Mosteghanemi

Her publications

fantastic writer Ahlam Mosteghanemi:

1- (At  Port of days) in 1972.

2. (Writing in a moment of nudity) in 1976.
3. (Memory of the Flesh) in 1993.

It was mentioned in the best 100 Arabic novels.

In 2010, she was starred in a series called the same name as the novel by the Syrian director (Najda Anzour),(starring Jamal Suleiman and Amal Bouchoucha)

4. (Chaos of the Senses) 1997.

It is the second novel in its trilogy series (Memory in the Flesh, Chaos of the Senses, A Bedbugger).

Talking about Khaled Al Rassam Jazairi and his relationship with the daughter of his comrade, the fighter Si Sharif

5. (Transient of the bed) 2003.
6. (Forgetting.com) in 2013.
7. (Their hearts are with us and their bombs are against us).

Ahlam Mosteghanemi was issued in conjunction with the issue of Nisan

8. (Black is worthy) of you 2012
9. (You Have Love) 2014 with his participation with the composer Marwan Khoury.
10. (Delicious as Parting) 2018 book.

Biography Ahlam Mosteghanemi

Birth in exile and return to Algeria

fantastic writer Ahlam Mosteghanemi:

Ahlam was born in Tunisia.

She is the daughter of a militant political activist who was forced into exile during the Algerian war of liberation.

In the aftermath of independence, her family returned to Algeria.

Her father, an educated and humanitarian, held high positions in the first Algerian government.

He launched a literacy campaign across the province.

He supervised the distribution of agricultural lands to the poorest groups.

Early poetry

In the seventies, after the assassination attempt during the Boumediene coup, and the subsequent hospitalization of her father, who was also targeted.

Ahlam, as her older brother, took the responsibility to support her family as a radio host.

At the age of seventeen, she became a household name in Algeria with the daily poetry program Whispers (Whispers) on the national radio.

During its publication in 1973, on Marfa al-Ayyam (To the Refuge of Days).

Ahlam also became the first woman to publish a collection of poetry in Arabic, setting her in a thorny and uninterrupted path.

It was followed in 1976 by a release

(Writing in a moment of nudity).

At the time, she was part of the first generation to gain the right to study in the Arabic language.

Arabic language minefield

Her French-speaking father encouraged her to speak Arabic as if it was revenge.

This provided her with a feeling of liberation as her family had not mastered newly re-acquired Arabic.

But at that time, Algerian society was rebuilding its identity.

She was not ready to see a girl who would express herself freely on topics such as love and women’s rights.

She was even less willing to see her do so in sacred Arabic.

Here begins a dream battle against gender discrimination.

Although women fought during the revolution, after the war they were relegated to their traditional role.

They were deprived of the freedom to express themselves and aspire to succeed.

After obtaining her BA in Arts, the Board of Directors of the University of Algiers refused to enroll her in a master’s degree.

This was rejected on the pretext that her freedom of expression had a negative effect on the students.

She was also expelled from the Algerian Writers Union for violating the political line of her time.

Marriage and Life in Paris

Mosteghanemi met Lebanese journalist and historian Georges El Rassi in Algiers.

He had a deep knowledge of Algeria.

He was preparing a thesis on “Arabization and cultural conflicts in independent Algeria.”

They married in 1976 in Paris and settled there.

Ahlam pursued her university studies at the Sorbonne University.

In 1982 she obtained her doctorate in sociology.

Her thesis examined (misunderstanding and distress between the sexes in Algerian society).

The doctorate was under the direction of the prominent orientalist Jack Burke.

During her fifteen years in Paris, Ahlam contributed to many magazines.

Ahlam justified her transition from poetry to prose by saying: “When we lose love, he writes a poem, and when we lose our homeland, one writes a novel.”

Algeria is not far from her mind: “There are countries in which we live and countries that live in us.”

Stability in Lebanon and revelation

She settled in Lebanon in 1993.

She presented her novel “Memory in the Flesh” to the editor-in-chief of the famous publishing house Dar Al-Adab.

“This is a bomb,” the editor enthusiastically declared, would be a revelation for future generations.

Written with a very poetic style and political boldness, this novel will be a massive success throughout the Arab world.

The love story takes place between an unarmed painter and the daughter of his former commander in Paris. After 25 years of war, the novel is disappointing the postwar generation.

It is what echoes the disappointment of a generation of Arabs.

In a famous letter was to the writer Nizar Qabbani.

The great contemporary Arab poet stated: “This novel made me dizzy.

The Palme d’Or-winning director Youssef Chahine bought the rights to the novel shortly before his death.

Meanwhile, famous Hollywood director Mostafa Akkad said that one of his dreams was to turn “Zakat on the Flesh” into a movie. Affected by reading it.

To date, more than a million copies have been sold worldwide (except for pirated editions, which outnumber legal issues in the Arab world).

This novel also has the advantage of reconciling the Arab reader with the Arabic language and reading.

triple

fantastic writer Ahlam Mosteghanemi:

Ahlam continues her literary success by submitting two successive versions of her novel: “Faudat al-Hawas” in 1997 and “A Beder” in 2003.

Each part of the trilogy, now a classic, is a bestseller in its own right across the Arab world.

In 1998, Ahlam won the Naguib Mahfouz Literary Prize.

The award is taken from the film “Memory in the Flesh”, which was established by the American University in Cairo.

This university translated the novel into English and published it in 2000.

In 2010, “Nessyan.com” was published.

It is a guide for a women’s separation that will bring Ahlam closer to the female audience.

(The hilarious Nessyan.com states on the cover that it’s banned from selling to men.)

In 2012, the most recent novel of Dreams was published, Black Suits You (Black Suits You Well).

The novel confirms the status of a major Arab novelist’s dreams.

The story evokes the struggle of a young Algerian school teacher. The Father of this teacher was killed in the 1990s by terrorists who are against any form of art and joy in society.

The girl sings at her father’s funeral, to which he was previously forbidden to speak.

She attracts the audience with her dreamy voice. In defiance of terrorism.

She launches into a singing career.

She was forced to flee her country.

During her exile, she meets a rich and mysterious man who tries to seduce her.

The novel deals with the challenge of standing up not only in the face of terrorism.

But also before the crushing power of money and the media.

The launch of the novel was a huge literary and media event.

Her literary work in curricula

Mosteghanemi’s dreams have been adopted in the curricula of many universities and high schools around the world.

She based her work on dozens of university theses and research papers.

The French Ministry of Education used parts of “Memory in the Flesh” in the 2003 French Baccalaureate exams in 15 countries as students chose Arabic as a second language.

Notable publishers have translated their works into several foreign languages, including pocketbooks in French and English.

She lectured and worked as a visiting professor in many universities around the big world, including:

1. American University of Beirut, 1995
2. University of Maryland, 1999
3. Sorbonne University, 2002
4. University of Montpellier, 2002
5. University of Lyon, 2003
6. MIT Boston, 2005

7. University of Michigan, 2005.
8. Yale University, 2005

fantastic writer Ahlam Mosteghanemi Awards and honors

1. In 2006 Forbes magazine ranked her as the most successful Arab writer.

Its sales exceeded 2,300,000.

One of the ten most influential women in the Arab world and a pioneer in literature.

2. Awarded the Beirut Shield by the Governor of Beirut.

This shield was awarded in a special ceremony held at the UNESCO Palace attended by 1500 people at the time of the publication of her book “nessyane.com” in 2009.

3- Received the shield of the Jamar Foundation for Arab Creativity in Tripoli – Libya 2007.

4. She was awarded the Algerian Cultural Personality Award for the year 2007 by the Algerian News Magazine and the Algerian Press Club.
5. She was chosen for three consecutive years (2006, 2007, and 2008) as one of the 100 most powerful public figures in the Arab world by Arabian Business Magazine.

It was ranked 58th in 2008.

6. She won the title of the most distinguished Arab woman for the year 2006.

(Selected from 680 women candidates) by the Center for Arab Women Studies Paris / Dubai.

7. She received the Medal of Honor from Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria, in 2006.

8- Awarded the Medal of Appreciation and Thanks from the Sheikh Abdul Hamid Ibn Badis Foundation, Constantine, 2006.

9. She received the Medal of the Lebanese Pioneers Committee for her comprehensive work in 2004.
10. Received the George Taraba Prize for Culture and Creativity, Lebanon, 1999.
11. Holder of the Amman Medal of Loyalty to Creativity Amman, Jordan 1999.
12. Received the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for Memory in the Flesh in 1998.
13. She holds the Noor Foundation Prize for the Creativity of Women in Cairo.
14. Received the Best Arab Writer Award for the year 2014 during the Beirut International Awards Festival (BIAF).
15. In London, she won the Arab Women Award for 2015, in an event supported by the Mayor of London and Regent’s University London.

16- UNESCO appointed the Artist for Peace by Irina Bokova on December 16, 2016, in Paris.

Irina Bokova is the director of the organization.

From the sayings of Ahlam Mosteghanemi

1. Pride is to say things in half a word, not repeat. Not insist.
2. A moment of love that warrants a lifetime of waiting.
3. Stay away from a man who does not have the courage to apologize, so that you never lose your self-respect.

4- He will continue to make mistakes in her right, then he will forgive her for a sin that she will never know what … But she is asking to be forgiven for him. So are the women!

5. The most beautiful love is what we find while looking for something else.
6. They ask you: Do you pray? They do not ask you, do you fear God ?!
7. I read one day that the heart is comfortable at work and that happiness is to be so busy that you do not realize that you are unhappy.

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