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Title: Concealed

Author: Rahmouna Salah

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789022557495

Condition: Good

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Description:
Hassi Messaoud is the richest city in Algeria and the largest oil producer in Africa. The many foreign companies that have settled there are always in need of employees. When Rahmouna Salah and Fatiha Maamoura hear in the late nineties that even women are allowed to work in the rich city, an exception in the strictly Islamic Algeria, they take the plunge and leave for Hassi Messaoud. They find shelter in a closed community for women and are now able to support their children themselves, to their great joy. But this freedom is a thorn in the side of the local imam and in July 2001 he gives a thundering sermon, in which he states that these women are nothing more than whores, an insult to Allah. He incites the men of the city to such an extent that an angry mob moves to the neighborhoods where the women live. During a hellish night, the women are raped, beaten, set on fire and buried alive. Rahmouna and Fatiha survive the pogrom, but are rejected by their families and must fear for their lives every day. The international media hushed up the events, much to the anger of Rahmouna and Fatiha. Ten years after the atrocities, they want justice to be done and so they break their silence.