Algiers, Third World Capital - Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers

Mokhtefi (nee Klein), a Jewish American from Long Island, has had an exhilarating life. In the 1960s, she served as a press adviser to the National Liberation Front in postwar Algiers, before going to work with Eldridge Cleaver, who was wanted in the US for his role in a deadly shoot-out with Oakland police. Half a century later, as an eighty-nine-year-old painter living on the Upper West Side, Mokhtefi still seasons her prose with the argot of revolution.

About the author

Elaine Mokhtefi was born in New York. After the Second World War, she joined the youth movement for world peace and justice, becoming director of a militant student organization. In 1951 she settled in France as a translator and interpreter for international organizations in the new postwar world. In 1960, she joined a small team in New York as part of the Algerian National Liberation Front, lobbying the United Nations in support of the government in exile and working for Algerian independence. When the struggle was won, she made Algeria her home, working as a journalist and translator. She married the Algerian writer and liberation war veteran Mokhtar Mokhtefi, who died in 2015. A painter as well as a writer, she lives in New York.Jeremy Harding is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books. His books include The Uninvited: Refugees at the Rich Man's Gate, Small Wars, Small Mercies, and Mother Country.

Report

Provides an ideal occasion to reconsider the politics of 'Third Worldist' internationalism linking Black Power, European radicals, and anti-colonial militants during (the late sixties) Eugene Brennan Los Angeles Review of Books

Product details

• Authors: Elaine Mokhtefi, Mokhtefi Elaine
• Assisted by: Harding Jeremy (Introduction)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781788730037
• ISBN: 978-1-78873-003-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book; Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, Political activism, Politics & government, Politics and government, Political activism / Political engagement, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity