Project Description

“In the eyes of the Islamist terrorists I belonged to the hateful category of the
“tagh’out” – a traitor to the cause of God. As an artist and journalist, I was living
in a state torn between the rule of law, ‘loyalty’ to Islam and the aspirations of
struggling for a free, democratic and modern Algeria. The worst was to endure up
close the atrocities of a civil war that did not acknowledge itself as such. The most
shocking moment was when, having been assigned to cover his speech, I witnessed
the assassination of President Boudiaf. This work is about memory, a return to the
archives and recollections of that period.”

Ammar Bouras

2011