She was therefore raised with the Koran. Her mother hasn t left the house for thirty years. Thirty years without seeing the streets. Islam has had to adjust itself to the common law of the Berber-area Kabylia. The women there can t escape a programmed course of life.
Women don t share in an inheritance.
Messaoudi s mother married a cousin without knowing him. Official history says the Berbers immediately embraced the Arabs and Islam, but that is a counterfeit. After 80 years of war the Berbers finally gave in. As a matter of fact, the whole of Algeria is Berber, except that two-thirds of the population has forgotten its history and language. Kabylia is a mountainous area with a little fertile soil.