The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has raised concerns about the detention of Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, who ...

The French-Algerian writer, a lifelong opponent of Islamism, has been incarcerated in Algeria since November 16. His penchant ...

He has been vocal about the growing encroachment of Islamism, both in Algeria and the broader Middle East, and has often ...

French-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal, imprisoned by Algerian authorities on national security charges, has again been hospitalised, according to his French editor, raising fears about the 75 ...

Not a great many English-speaking Americans — there still are some — have heard of Boualem Sansal, fewer have read his remarkable novels; so maybe the simplest way to introduce him is to say ...

A lgerian authorities have remanded in custody on national security charges prominent French-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal following his arrest earlier this month that sparked alarm throughout ...

FILE - Algerian author Boualem Sansal, a members of the Jury, at the press conference speaks during the 62 edition of International Film Festival Berlinale, in Berlin Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. (AP ...

"Boualem Sansal... was today placed in detention" on the basis of an article of the Algerian penal code, "which punishes all attacks on state security," lawyer Francois Zimeray said in a statement ...

Algerian authorities have remanded in custody on national security charges prominent French-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal following his arrest earlier this month that sparked alarm throughout the ...

In 2015, Sansal won the Grand Prix du Roman of the French Academy, the guardians of the French language, for his book "2084: The End of the World", a dystopian novel inspired by George Orwell's ...