Mujaheedate our heroines, an exhibition against oblivion opened in Algiers

"Mujaheedate our heroines" exhibition was inaugurated on Saturday at MAMA (Nation public Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Algiers) reflects "a historical heritage aside" through a comparison of current clichés and historical photos of Mujadeedate during the National liberation war. "From the invisible to visible: Mujadeeda, a fighting Woman" and "Life in a Day", the two components of this exhibition, each signed by the young photographers Nadja Makhlouf and Benyoucef Sharif, are accompanied by texts of their own and analysis of a the historian Malika El-Korso.In parallel, short films give a voice to those who have been "pervasive in all fighting" and became "forgotten and shelved," the concerned persons said quoting late Zhor Zerari."Whether flag weaver, nurse, soldier, protester, liaison, gynaecologist, psychiatrist, bomb fitter, teacher, typist ... I did not want to make any difference between these functions," said Nadja Makhlouf, author of a gallery of women portraits.