Burning the veil

N E I L M A C M A S T E R MAMASTER The Algerian war and the ‘emancipation’ of Muslim women, 1954–62 During the Algerian War of Independence, French counter-insurgency specialists set out to ‘emancipate’ Muslim women from the veil, seclusion and perceived male oppression, a liberation that was contradicted by military violence inflicted on women through rape, torture and destruction of villages. Burning the veil, the first comprehensive study in English of the role of Algerian women during the war, explores the roots of this contradiction in the theory of ‘revolutionary warfare’, and the attempt to defeat the National Liberation Front (FLN) by penetrating the Muslim family, seen as a bastion of nationalist resistance.

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