Hanna

Student, Writer

United Kingdom

Hanna Bechiche is a French-Algerian MPhil student in Francophone postcolonial studies at the University of Cambridge and a Gates Cambridge scholar-elect. She is a writer represented by Trellis Literary Management and works as a freelance journalist focusing on French-Algerian history and decolonial thought.

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Dazed

07/06/2023

Paris riots: is this France's wake-up call?

The riots sparked by the killing of French teenager Nahel M are being dismissed in the media as needless violence - in fact, they're a long-overdue reckoning

Dazed

10/08/2024

Can Western museums ever be truly decolonised?

Francoise Vergès's new book challenges the current global dialogue on cultural restitution, calling the very idea of museums into question

New Lines Magazine

06/28/2024

How Algeria Became a Home to Africa's Guerrillas, Anti-Fascists and Liberators

After fighting for its independence, the country exported its ideology - and arms - across the continent

Europe once stretched into Algeria | Politics & Society

"We had French nationality, but not French citizenship. We were part of Europe, but we were not European. We were immigrants, but not foreigners." Sitting in a Parisian café, my great-uncle reminisces about when he and his brother answered France's call for cheap manual labor in...

Novara Media

French Muslims Overwhelmingly Backed Mélenchon. Will the Left Take Note? | Novara Media

After five years of persecution on Emmanuel Macron's watch, Muslim voters want an alternative, writes Hanna Bechiche. Will the French left learn lessons from the election and bake anti-racism into its agenda?