Mehdi Charef
was born in Algeria in 1952 and moved to France in 1964. Following the success of his first novel, Tea in the Harem (1983), he directed a film of the book with Costa Gavras. His second novel was Le Harki de Meriem (1989) and his third La Maison d’Alexina (1999).
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Banipal No 6 Autumn 1999
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