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Marieme Helie Lucas

Born in Algeria, Marieme Helie Lucas is a writer, a feminist political activist, a sociologist and a trained psychotherapist. She was part of the Algerian liberation struggle against French colonialism. Following independence of Algeria she worked for two year period as an official responsible for the Algerian govt programme for training employees of state enterprises. She later worked for a 12 year period at the university of Algiers as a teacher of methodology and epistemology in social sciences. Between the late1960's and early 1970's she was involved in solidarity work for the ANC and the anti aparthied movement. Marieme was associated with the Association of African Women for Research and Development (AAWORD) at the time of its founding in 1977. In 1984 she founded the network of Women Living Under Muslim Laws and was closely involved with the wider women's movement internationally; When the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery was formed she was part of its international advisory committee in 1998. In 2005 she founded 'Secularism is a Women's Issue' which she is currently coordinates. She has been published widely.

Articles and Book Chapters:

The enemy of my enemy is not my friend: Fundamentalist Non State Actors, Democracy and Human Rights

De l’européocentrisme comme cache-sexe, et de l‘art de la prestidigitation en politique: PLACE TAHRIR EN EUROPE

Fundamentalism Today – Democratic and Feminist Responses, collection of essays by Marieme Helie Lucas (Edited by Nada Ler Sofronic and Stasa Zajovic) September 2007 Publishers: Women in Black, Belgrade, and Woman and Society Centre, Sarajevo.

"Women Living Under Muslim Laws: Struggles Against Fundamentalism in Europe and North America" 9th Annual Dame Nita Barrow Lecture, November 2005, Toronto.

"Fundamentally Fascist" Interview in Trouble & Strife 43, Summer 2002

"What is Your Tribe?: Womens Stuggles and the Construction of Muslimness" in Religious Fundamentalisms and Human Rights of Women Edited by Coutney W Howland (Saint Martins Press, 1999) ISBN: 0-312-29306-2

"Women, Nationalism and Religion in Algerian Liberation Struggle" pages 271-282 in : Nigel C. Gibson [ed.], Rethinking Fanon: The Continuing Dialogue (1999: Amherst, New York, Humanity Books) ISBN 978-1573927086

Face of Women Refugees From Muslim Communities: Algeria to Ex-Yugoslavia" in The suitcase: refugee voices from Bosnia and Croatia Edited By Julie Mertus, Jasmina Tesanovic, Habiba Metikos, and Rada Boric (267 pages, January 1997, University of California Press) ISBN: 9780520206342

"Women, Nationalism and Religion in the Algerian Liberation Struggle," in Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing, ed. Margot Badran and Miriam Cooke (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990)

"Fundamentalisms: From Entryism to Internationalism", in: The Rights of subordinated peoples‎ (Edited by Oliver Mendelsohn, Upendra Baxi - Page 251 (1994 - 377 pages)

"The preferential symbol for Islamic identity: women in Muslim personal status laws", in Valentine Moghadam (ed), Identity politics and women. Cultural reassertions and feminisms in international perspective. (Boulder, 1994), pp.391-407.

"Les Femmes Algeriennes Rurales dans La Politique de Developpement Apres L'independance", 1985 - Labour Capital And Society No 1, 25 Pages

'Quelques Donees sur la Crise Berbere en Algerie: 'Arabisme' et 'Berberisme', Manifestations Culturelles de Lutte d'une Classe Dominee' (Some Notes on the Berber Crisis in Algeria: 'Arabism' and 'Berberism', Cultural Forms of Struggle of a Dominated Class)', ##Le Mois en Afrique#, No. 198-199, 1982, pp. 31-40. pp. 31-40.