Chronology

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SOME IMPORTANT PLAYWRIGHTS

		Important Female Playwrights Milestones	History	Science and Technology
1831			French colonize most of North Africa	The Scientific Revolution Occurs
1942	Assia Djebar is born.		North Africa enters World War II under French command.	Women roles as war heroes are quickly dismantled near the end of colonization.
1945	Fatima Gallaire is born.
1972			Algeria wins independence from French rule.
1975	Fatima Galliare develops her first play "As you have come back"		Spain, the departs colonial power -- and the native people and their national liberation movement set out to claim the land that is theirs.
1978	Amina Annabia was born during this year. Her performance combines Arab, Middle Eastern, and West African musical genres with Western music, particularly blues, jazz, reggae, and rap.		Sanctions are placed on all Arabic arts. (1970-1976).
1980 1990 2001 2005	Hélène Cixous Djebar is c been nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature.	Cixous become the fist female Algerian female writer, with a book translated into five different languages.	Algerian punishment for women performers. Also, from 1990-1994 this period becomes the 'bloodiest' in history.	Cixous develops Cixous published her most influential article "Le rire de la méduse" ("The Laugh of the Medusa"), develops the notion of "writing the body through literature.