Fanny Colonna (1934 - 18 November 2014) was a French-Algerian Sociologist and

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. She was also a former Professor at Tizi Ouzou University.

Biography

Colonna was born in El Milia, and was the daughter of a French

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"who made sure she learned

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." Colonna lived in

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until 1993. She "established her reputation with a study of the Algerian schoolteacher class during the colonial period." Colonna also conducted an

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study in the Aures between 1970 and 1980.

Selected works

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References

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