Rayhana

This article is about an Algerian playwright and actress; on the slave and wife of Muhammad, see Raihana

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Rayhana (* 1964 in Algeria ) is an Algerian playwright and actress .

Life

Rayhana was threatened with death by Islamists in her home country Algeria . She fled Algeria from the Islamic violence of the black years . The director of the State Theater Azzedin Medjoubi was killed in front of her eyes in 1995. The film director Ali Tenkhi , who works with her, was also killed. She received asylum in France through Ariane Mnouchkine's commitment . Rayhana's brother was murdered by Islamists in Paris, apparently because of his homosexuality.

“In this developing country, women have the right to education and the right to work. Unfortunately, their civic awareness and their democratic will are being suppressed by traditional religion, ”Rayhana told a French newspaper in December 2009. Because of her courageous commitment to women's freedom, Rayhana was attacked on the street in Paris in January 2010: on the way to the performance of her play, which is about nine Algerian women, she arrested two Muslim men from behind and insulted them as "Whore" and "Unbeliever". They poured gasoline on her and threw a cigarette on her, but it went out. State Secretary Nadine Morano , Mayor Bertrand Delanoë and Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand expressed their support for Rayhana.

Rayana observes the radicalization of Islam and the increase in so-called " honor killings " in Germany with concern. In 2014 Rayhana was awarded the Jürgen Bansemer & Ute Nyssen Dramatiker Prize for her play In My Age I Still Smoke Secretly . The play was filmed in 2015 and staged in 2016 at the Stadttheater Ingolstadt and the Theater tri-bühne in Stuttgart.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Thomas Hahn: Attack against the author. Welt-online, January 16, 2010, accessed January 17, 2010.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Algerian feminist escaped petrol attack. dieStandard.at, January 15, 2010, accessed January 17, 2010.
3. ↑ At my age I still smoke secretly | Theater tri-bühne Stuttgart. Retrieved January 25, 2018 . 

Web links

• Rayhana, la rousse qui tient tête aux barbus. Ouest-France.fr, January 15, 2011, accessed July 23, 2011 (French).
• Le voile intégral, a symbol of oppression des femmes. lexpress.fr, January 16, 2011, accessed July 23, 2011 (French).