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Tassadit Yacine

Born 1949Kabylie
📖Their story

Anthropologist and researcher, Tassadit Yacine has devoted decades to the study of Berber language, oral poetry and women's voices in Algeria, building a major scholarly archive.

Why they matter

She is a leading contemporary academic voice on Berber and women's studies in North Africa.

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She has long collaborated on research about Pierre Bourdieu's early Algerian fieldwork.

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