Eliane Mokhtefi on the list of personalities honored at the opening ceremony.
orn Elaine Klein in 1928 in New York, she is an Algerian activist and author of American origin. She arrived in Paris in 1951 and became involved early on in anti-colonial and anti-racist movements alongside Frantz Fanon and Mohamed Sahnoun, before working for the FLN and the GPRA in New York. Her struggle for independence led her to live twelve years in Algeria, where she worked as a journalist and translator. She married Mokhtar Mokhtefi, a former member of the Algerian National Liberation Army (ALN) who became a writer and passed away in 2015, author of the highly acclaimed memoir J’étais Français-Musulman (Barzakh, 2016).
After independence, she settled in Algiers, playing a key role in welcoming African liberation movements and the international section of the Black Panthers, notably organizing the clandestine exile of Eldridge Cleaver. In 1969, she helped organize the first Pan-African Festival in Algiers. A journalist at APS, she is also the author of the book Alger, capitale de la révolution, in which she recounts her years at the heart of Third World struggles.
