Lala fatma nsoumer biography of william shakespeare

Algerian anti-colonial leader

Lalla Fatma N'Soumer (c. 1830 – 1863) (Kabyle: Lalla Faḍma n Sumer; Arabic: لالة فاطمة نسومر) was an Algerian anti-colonial leader^[1] during 1849–1857 of the French conquest of Algeria and subsequent Pacification of Algeria.

She led several battles against the French forces, until her capture in July 1857.

Lala fatma nsoumer biography of william shakespeare

She was imprisoned until her death six years later. She is an Algerian national hero.

Name

Lalla, the female equivalent of the Berber word mass, is an honorific reserved for women of high social rank or for holy women.^[2] "N'Soumer" means "of Soumer", where Soumer was the village nearest the zawiya of her lineage, the Sidahmed.

She sometimes bore the name "Lalla N'Ouerdja". Her birth name seems to have been "Fadhma Si Ahmed Ou Méziane", but she went by Fatma N'Soumer and eventually Lalla Fatma N'Soumer with time.^[3]

Biography

Fadhma Si Ahmed Ou Méziane was born around 1830