Malek alloula biography
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Malek Alloula was a child of the French colonial era. He was born in 1937 in Oran, a port city in Western Algeria steeped in history.
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The city is still considered the most liberal and cosmopolitan in Algeria. This was the atmosphere in which Alloula grew up.
He was one of the few Algerians who had the privilege of attending a French school. The cultural alienation that came with French colonialism was tremendous – so much so that Alloula sensed it while he was still at school: "We spoke Arabic at home, but at the French-speaking school we only learned the history of France.
For us, the Arabic language was a foreign tongue in our own country."
There were hardly any schools where Arabic was taught, apart from the Koran schools. As a result, following the Algerian War and liberation from the French colonial power, many Algerians were illiterate.
Malek Alloula went on to study literature at the "Ecole Normale Superieure" (ENS) in Algiers