Ahlem Mosteghanemi

Ahlam Mosteghanemi (born 1953) is an Algerian writer who has been called the world's best-known arabophone woman novelist. Ahlem was born in Tunis. She is the daughter of a militant political activist who was forced into exile during the Algerian liberation war. In the wake of independence, her family moved back to Algeria, where her father, an intellectual and a humanitarian, occupied high positions in the first Algerian government. He launched a literacy campaign all over the territory and supervised the distribution of agricultural land to the poorest.