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World● Low5d ago · Oct 30, 2026, 10:17 AM

French publisher returns to Algiers book fair after two-year ban

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Africanews [en] · North Africa

Gallimard has been caught in legal battles over accusations that French-Algerian writer, Kamel Daoud, plagiarised a women's life in his novel 'Houris'.

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