Orientalist scholar Amédée Caix de Saint-Aymour characterized a subgroup of these people as “hardworking, enterprising, practical,” and less religious, making them easier to assimilate than Arabs. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these people whose subgroups include the Kabyle, who were subject to an imperial myth portraying them as ideal colonial subjects.
ANSWER: Berbers [or Imazighen; or Amazigh]
[10e] Natalya Vince argues that the Kabyle myth influenced French authorities to find it incredible that Berber women like Zohra Drif can join this North African country’s independence war of their own will.
ANSWER: Algeria [or Algérie; or People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria; or al-Jazā’ir]
[10m] Despite seizing on the propaganda value of women fighters in its publication El Moudjahid, no woman ever served in the governing bodies of this political party that led the Algerian War of Independence.
ANSWER: FLN [or Front de Libération Nationale; or National Liberation Front; or Jabhatu l-Taḥrīri l-Waṭanī]
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