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Algeria issues arrest warrants for French-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud in escalating diplomatic row
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Acclaimed French-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud has been issued two arrest warrants by Algeria. This move was communicated to France by the Algerian judiciary. Daoud won France's top literary prize, the Goncourt Prize, in 2024 for his novel "Houris". The novel, which tells the story of a young woman's voice loss after being attacked by an Islamist, has been banned in Algeria.
We are monitoring and will continue to monitor developments in this situation closely.
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- 1.French Foreign Policy
- 2.Authoritarianism
- 3.Freedom of Speech
- 4.Sahel political instability
- 5.France in Sahel
- 6.Literature
- 7.Morocco under Mohammed VI
- 8.Algeria-France Relations
- 9.Algeria under Abdelmadjid Tebboune