Quote:For Zouine, perhaps contrary to popular belief, the feminist press is not only a space for denunciation, but also a tool for encouragement.

It is with this in mind that La Place-Lblassa, an annual bilingual Arabic-French magazine, was created in 2022 by Maya Ouabadi, a literary critic and founder of the publishing house Motifs.

The stimulus was the discovery of a photo of the old magazine El Djazairia ("the Algerian woman"), which was published monthly from 1970 to 1981 by the National Union of Algerian Women, a women's organisation created after independence by the single-party ruler, the National Liberation Front (FLN).

"I realised that there were no longer feminist magazines in Algeria," Ouabadi told MEE.

With Saadia Gacem, an Algerian doctoral student in anthropology and a feminist activist, they co-founded a feminist magazine made by women, from graphic design to translation, and for women, be they writers, artists or researchers.

The result is a hybrid publication, somewhere between a book and a newspaper.