with short hair and Bedouin men's clothing. A Swiss writer hid behind a character
a fictitious man. She changed her appearance and chose the name Mahmoud
Saadi sect. She left the life of the Geneva aristocracy to roam the
territory of Algeria and inhabits its desert. She converted to Islam and joined the
mystical life resisted French colonialism with them. She survived an assassination attempt on the
and ended her life a flood. Here is the story of the Algerian desert knight
Elizabeth Eberhart. I was born in Geneva in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven
From a Russian mother and an unknown father. Registering her as a foundling daughter caused her
socially and emotionally free when she was prevented from leaving the house. The depth of her hatred for a
wealthy Europeans. She chose to refine her own unique personality.
her interest in reading ten years ago, she and her brother and the spread of the fashion of Orientalism
then. She was born with an interest in two main things. Algeria and Islam. I preferred
young age about menswear. She felt that she would be more
to hide her tyrannical femininity. Meetings of revolutionaries from different countries in the home of
mother's problems. Like the reason for her militant, rebellious personality. Her brother fled
August to Algeria and enlisted in the army, while his father considered this
the move, injuring his social standing. It was praised by Elizabeth and written by
To her brother, she says, "You are in the land of Morocco, the abode of Islam. It is if you still
remembered our Kaaba. From Geneva to Algeria. In an attempt to meet her brother
and the beginning of a new life. Elizabeth and her mother traveled to Algeria in
ninety-seven thousand eight hundred. She was then twenty years old.
lived in the European neighborhood in Annaba, but you quickly left it in protest
from her on the French centenarians against the Algerians. I moved to the neighborhood as
Arab life. I was fascinated by the life of the Algerian Arabs, their
for Islamic meanings until she converted to Islam. After the death of her mother
engaged with the Arabs in the fight against French colonialism. She was the first
a war correspondent with the news channel. I wrote journalistic and literary stories
and exposed the brutal practices of the colonizer. " I conveyed the details of
Bedouin way of life, and the status of Algerian women. And she always wanted to help them from a
through what you write. It is mentioned that she demanded to travel to France to write
and to defend revolutionaries who will be tried there. She was acquitted by her works and articles
on the charge of espionage for the colonizer. From Algeria to Tunisia. It was commissioned by
wife of a European nobleman to investigate the strange death
for her husband in Tunisia. So Eberhard discovered the northern society and
the African disguised as Si Mahmoud Al-Saadi. Through her travels between
Muslims decided to get acquainted with the method of Sufi Qadiriyah. That worked secretly
to fight colonialism and help the poor and feed them. Hence the
the colonists listing Elizabeth on the blacklist. In the year a thousand
nine hundred and one, internal disputes between the Sufi orders caused the
an imminent assassination attempt. The French authorities took advantage of this incident.
and exiled to Marseille as an excuse to prevent her from continuing the investigation
in the crime of the Marquis. Her exile took place to write many of
. Then there I met a Muslim with French citizenship who
Suleiman Hani. She married him and obtained French citizenship thanks to him and the right to
back to Algeria. She lived with her husband in a mud house in the village of Ain
The row is southwest of Algeria. She was riding her horse and roaming the desert
be able to cover the operations of the French army on the Moroccan borders?
the deluge. The twenty-first of October, the year a thousand,
Nine hundred and four. The worst flood flood overwhelmed the region. Her books collapse
a mud house. His life ends at the age of twenty-seven. Elizabeth was found
three days later under the rubble of her home. In her hand, she held a manuscript that turned out to be
What you collected. Her reflections, her career and her experiences. I called him a loafer.
. She drowned trying to save her manuscripts. She was buried in the Ain al-Safra cemetery and wrote
on her grave with the name Mahmoud. The title of the aristocratic girl who inhabited the desert.
And she wrote many parts of her short life from her story inherited
today on the lips of the Algerians and some Arabs. And you, dear viewer, would you
she had heard before about foreign women who fought for an Arab homeland.