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Immigration and the Novelist in France Thursday, November 16 Born in Saïda, Algeria, in 1949, Ahmed Zitouni
has lived in France since 1973 Ahmed Zitouni's fictional writing delves into the unique experience of being a foreigner, dramatizing the personal, political and intellectual turmoil specific to the Maghrebi Arab experience in France. Concerned with both obvious and subtle prejudices that foreigners experience and that mark their psyches, Ahmed Zitouni's writing offers a stark social criticism of contemporary France, but also a profound artistic and philosophical meditation on an astonishing range of social and political practices that transcend national borders. |
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He has dedicated more than 30 years of his life to analyzing and
writing about the struggle of immigrants in Western societies and
the politics of human dignity in a multicultural world. Zitouni
has published 8 novels and 1 essay with some of the most prestigious
publishing companies in France|
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