Most upheavals and revolutions have failed in their attempt to achieve their goals once the so-called 'opposition' has come to power. This is as much true for the Algerian War of Indepence of the 1960s as it is for the Iranian Revolution of the 1970s. Women took to the streets, shoulder to shoulder with their men in both revolutions and when the war was won, those very women were forgotten. Once again, banished to their apartments. Assia Djebar's Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade speaks about this in a poetic language that still haunts me now almost 20 years on."
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