Asad Faulwell
Les Femmes D'Alger
ISBN-13: 9781937222260
Author(s): Asad Faulwell
Subjects: 3MPQ, ACXJ, AGA
Publisher: Gingko Press
Publisher Imprint: Zero+
Publication Date: 30-03-2017
Format: Hardback
Availability: In stock
£40.99
About the book
Faulwell says, 'Specifically, I am currently engaged in a series of mixed media paintings focused on Algerian women who actively engaged in combat during the Algerian War of Independence. These women were all either killed in battle or captured by the French and subjected to imprisonment and torture. After Algerian Independence was gained these women were pardoned by Charles De Gaulle and returned to Algeria. Upon returning to day-to-day life many of them became social outcasts, considered an oddity and an affront to conservative Islamic teachings.