Facing the ignorance of a society that erases all diversity and slaps labels onto everyone, a young Kabylian woman immerses herself in her memories and questions her identity.

Combining fiction, lyrical essay and autobiographic elements while recounting the history of Islam, this book is a pure reflection on the relationship between language and identity, the uprooting from one’s home, and struggling to understand what it means to be Muslim.

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Zahia Rahmani is a writer and art historian, in charge of global art history exhibitions at INHA. Born in Algeria to a Harki father and a Kabylian mother, she moved to France in 1967. “Muslim”: A Novel is the second volume of a trilogy that also includes Moze, published in 2002, and France, Story of a Childhood, published in 2006.