Finally, my father, an Algerian peasant's son turned professor, was forced to stop teaching at the university and to flee his apartment, but what I will never forget about Mahfoud Bennoune, my dad, was that like so many other Algerian intellectuals, he refused to leave the country and he continued to publish pointed criticisms, both of the fundamentalists and sometimes of the government they battled.
Finalmente, mi padre, hijo de un campesino argelino llegado a profesor, se vio obligado a dejar de enseñar en la universidad y huir de su apartamento. Pero lo que nunca olvidaré sobre Mahfoud Bennoune, mi padre, fue que, como tantos otros intelectuales argelinos, se negó a abandonar el país y continuó publicando críticas punzantes, contra los fundamentalistas