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Yasmina Khadra is the pen name of Mohammed Moulessehoul, an Algerian author living in France who writes in French. He is known for his novels about Algerian civil war, Islamic fundamentalism, and the Algerian trilogy featuring Inspector Llob.
Yasmina Khadra (Arabic: ياسمينة خضراء, literally "green jasmine") is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul. Moulessehoul, an officer in the Algerian army, adopted a woman's pseudonym to avoid military censorship. Despite the publication of many successful novels in Algeria, Moulessehoul only revealed his true ...
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Mar 2, 2021 · By Yasmina Khadra. Translated by John Cullen. Yasmina Khadra is the pen name of the French-Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul. In 2001 he outed himself as a former Algerian Army officer, with a ...
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Browse the list of books by Yasmina Khadra, a popular Algerian-born French author of novels and short stories. See ratings, reviews, editions and genres for each book.
Aug 18, 2005 · Yasmina Khadra is the nom de plume for former Algerian officer Mohammed Moulessehoul and I feel (as the blurb on the back of the book states) he “rarely sits in judgement”. Despite the book starting with the killing of 19 Israelis, the book really centres around the suicide bomber, Sihem, and what drove a wealthy, priveledged wife of a well respected surgeon to carry out such a act.
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Oct 16, 2008 · Yasmina Khadra is the pseudonym of Mohammed Moulessehoul, a former major in the Algerian Army, now full time novelist. In this interview with Richard Marcus, the exiled writer talks about his writing and the differences between Western and Arab culture
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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. 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 ...
