"Hassiba Ben Bouali, If You could See Our Algeria" Women and Public Space in Algeria‪.‬

Secularist and Islamist groups are attempting to define and promote diametrically opposed positions by using similar strategies. In other words, the factions now struggling for power in Algeria show one fundamental ideological agreement: that women's social freedom must be severely restricted. On January 2, 1992, Algerian feminists demonstrated against the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) and their victory in the national elections of December 26, 1991. Their target was the Islamist assault on women's rights and the threat of violence against women. One of their posters addressed I am artyred sister, a moudjahida, killed by the French during the battle of Algiers in 1956-57: "Hassiba Ben Bouali, If You Could See Our Algeria" (Hassiba Ben Bouali, Si tu voyais notre Algerie). At the same time, women marching in Oran waved a similar slogan: "Hassiba Ben Bouali, We Will Not Betray You" (Hassiba Ben Bouali, Nous ne te trahirons pas).