Ahlam Mosteghanemi

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ahlam Mosteghanemi
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Apr 13, 1953(1953-04-13)
Age	71
Birthplace	Constantine
Country	Algeria
Horoscope	Aries

Ahlam Mosteghanemi Biography

Ahlam Mosteghanemi is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on April 13, 1953 in Constantine, Algeria. The first female Algerian author to have her Arabic-language works translated into English, she is known for novels such as Fawda el Hawas (Chaos of the Senses) and Aber Sareer (Bed Hopper). She received numerous awards, including the Pioneers of Lebanon Committee Medal and the Amman Loyalty Medal.

She and feminist writer Helene Cixous are both natives of Algeria.

In Algiers, Mosteghanemi met Georges. A Lebanese journalist and historian with a deep knowledge of Algeria, Georges was preparing a thesis about “Arabization and cultural conflicts in independent Algeria”. They were married in 1976 in Paris and settled there. Ahlam pursued her university studies at the Sorbonne, where in 1982 she obtained a doctorate in Sociology. Her thesis explored the misunderstanding and malaise between both sexes in the Algerian society. The doctorate was under the guidance of Jacques Berques, an eminent orientalist, who also wrote the preface of her thesis (published in 1985 by L’Harmattan as Algérie, femmes et écriture). During the fifteen years she spent in Paris, Ahlam contributed to various magazines, and during time stolen from her new role as a mother of three young boys, wrote fragments of what turned out after four years to be a novel. Ahlam justified her transition from poetry to prose by saying: «When we lose a love, one writes a poem, when we lose our homeland, one writes a novel». Algeria is never far from her mind: «There are countries that we live in and countries that live in us».

Once she settles down in 1993 in Lebanon, she presents her novel “Zakirat el Jassad” (Memory of the Flesh), to the editor of the renowned publishing house Dar Al Adab. Excited, the editor will declare: « this is a bomb». It will be the revelation. This novel, written in a style highly poetic and with political bravado, will have a phenomenal success throughout the Arab world. The love story is set between an armless painter and the daughter of his former commander encountered in Paris 25 years after the war. The novel evokes the disappointment of the post-war generation, which echoes the disappointment of a generation of Arabs. In a famous letter to the author, Nizar Kabbani, the great contemporary Arab poet, declared: « This novel gave me vertigo; had I been asked, I would have signed it». The director Youssef Chahine, winner of the Palme d’Or, purchases the rights to the film shortly before his death. Meanwhile, the famous Hollywood director Mustafa Akkad said that one of his dreams was to adapt “Zakirat el Jassad” into a movie. Moved by his reading, President Ben Bella will say from his exile: «Ahlem is an Algerian sun that illuminates the Arab world». To date, more than one million copies have been sold across the Arabic-speaking world (excluding pirated editions which vastly outnumber the legal editions in the Arab world). This novel also has the merit to reconcile the Arab reader with the Arabic language and reading.

She married journalist Georges El Rassi in 1976.

Ahlam Mosteghanemi Net Worth

Ahlam Mosteghanemi is one of the richest Novelist from Algeria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ahlam Mosteghanemi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Born in Tunis as the daughter of revolutionary leader Mohammed Cherif, she spent much of her childhood in exile from her native country.

Her novel, Memory of the Flesh (Zakirat el Jassad), sold over a million copies and won the 1998 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.

Ahlem Mosteghanemi (Arabic: أحلام مستغانمي ‎), alternatively written Ahlam Mosteghanemi (born 1953) is an Algerian writer who has been called “the world’s best-known arabophone woman novelist”.

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Who is Ahlam Mosteghanemi Dating?

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Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s novels have been adopted in the curricula of several universities and high schools worldwide, and dozens of university theses and research papers have been based upon her work. The French Ministry of Education has used parts of Memory in the Flesh for the French baccalaureate tests in 2003 in 15 countries where students chose Arabic as a second language. Her work has been translated into several foreign languages by prestigious publishing houses, including pocket books in French and English.

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Ahlam Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Algeria. Ahlam Mosteghanemi celebrates birthday on April 13 of every year.