Moulessehoul, an officer in the Algerian army, adopted a woman's pseudonym to avoid military censorship. In 2004, Newsweek acclaimed him as "one of the rare writers capable of giving a meaning to the violence in Algeria today." His novel The Swallows of Kabul, set in Afghanistan under the Taliban, was shortlisted for the 2006 International Yasmina Khadra (Arabic: ياسمينة خضراء, literally "green jasmine") is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul. Anonymity was the only way for him to survive and avoid censorship during the Algerian Civil War. Despite the publication of many successful novels in Algeria, Moulessehoul only revealed his true identity in 2001 after leaving the army and going into exile and seclusion in France. Yasmina Khadra (Arabic: ياسمينة خضراء, literally "green jasmine") is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul.
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