"You Have Forbidden Me to Return to My Country": Kamel Daoud's Anger, Prevented From Going to His Mother's Funeral

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Target of the Algerian regime, the winner of the Prix Goncourt in 2024 cannot go to his home country to bury his deceased mother.

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On Friday, the Franco-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud revealed that he had lost his mother. On his account X, he simply wrote: "Today my mother died." Cited by two international arrest warrants launched by Algeria, as well as by a complaint and a summons in France, he is unable to return to his home country to pay tribute to his mother. He describes this situation as "persecution", which he attributes directly to the Algerian regime. In Tebboune, Ka…

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The Franco-Algérien writer announced his mother's death and deplored the fact that he could not go to Algeria to gather. Based on two arrest warrants issued by the Algerian authorities, he risks prison if he returns to his native country.