French Algerian Writer Ahmed Zitouni

Friday, November 17
7:00 pm

Mizna
2205 California Street NE
Minneapolis , MN
612-788-6920

Join us for a reading, discussion and reception with Ahmed Zitouni.

Born in Saïda, Algeria, in 1949, Ahmed Zitouni has lived in France since 1973. 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

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.