Assia Boundaoui
Reporter
Assia Boundaoui is an Algerian-American journalist, documentary filmmaker and writer based in Los Angeles.
Assia Boundaoui is an Algerian-American journalist, documentary filmmaker and writer based in Los Angeles. She has reported from the Middle-East, Africa and Europe on international affairs, art and technology. Her work has appeared on Aljazeera, NPR, BBC and CNN among other outlets. She worked as a producer on the HBO film MANHUNT, which was awarded the 2013 Emmy for best documentary. She is currently directing her first feature length documentary on surveillance in America today. Assia has a Masters degree in journalism from New York University and a B.A. in Political Science and Islamic World Studies from DePaul University.
Algerian artists are ‘exposing the scars’ of the country’s recent civil war
Not too long ago, Algeria fought a traumatizing civil war between the country’s military and Islamist militias, now commonly called the “Black Decade.” Today, a younger generation of Algerians is trying to reconcile the country’s trauma through art, but the government has a policy of overlooking it.
