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Governor General's Literary Award 2009

Djemila Benhabib
Ma vie à contre-Coran : une femme témoigne sur les islamistes

  Non-fiction French-Language

Djemila Benhabib

Djemila Benhabib, Gatineau (Quebec), Ma vie à contre-Coran : une femme témoigne sur les islamistes.
(VLB éditeur; distributed by Les messageries ADP) (ISBN 978-2-89649-059-2)

The author looks at the phenomenon of Muslim fundamentalism with courage, clear-sightedness and maturity. She gives scathing analyses of the political and religious powers that have taken hold in Algeria since independence, and condemns the attacks on basic freedoms of thought, expression and intellectual, artistic and sexual practices.