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Marie-Aimée
Helie-Lucas
(1939 - )
Born in 1939 in
Algeria, activist and author Marie-Aimé Helie-Lucas was
active during and after the Algerian national liberation struggle.
She studied sociology and anthropology and taught for twelve years
at the University of Algiers. A founding member of AAWORD, the
Association of American Women for Research on Development, Marie-Aimé
Helie-Lucas was also a research fellow at the Institute of Social
Studies in the Department of Women’s Studies at the Hague, Holland
from 1983-1984. In 1984 she started The Network of Women Living
Under Muslim Law, an organization of women and women’s groups from
seventeen countries that assists Muslim women oppressed in the name
of Muslim law.
In 1987, Marie-Aimé Helie-Lucas presented her paper “Women,
Nationalism, and Religion in the Algerian Liberation Struggle” to
the International Symposium on Women in the Military System at
Siunto Baths, Finland. In this fascinating and important paper she
identifies some of the obstacles women and women’s rights advocates
face in realizing their cause.
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