Zahia Rahmani

Zahia Rahmani (born 1962) is a French-Algerian author, curator, and art historian.

Early life Rahmani was born in Algeria in 1962 and is of Berber heritage. She spoke only Kabyle until she was five-years old and her family migrated to France in 1967. Rahmani's father was a Harki. With the help of some French friends, the family settled in Beauvais. The first in this series is her 2003 work Moze deals with Harki identity and her father's 1991 suicide. Muslim: a Novel was the 2020 winner of the Albertine Prize. The final work in this trilogy is her memoir France récit d’une enfance (France, story of a childhood).

Art curation Rahmani is director of the Research Program on Art and Globalization at the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art. Rahmani curated Seismography of Struggle, a collection of non-European cultural and critical journals.