“My father clearly did not want this name to circulate and be associated with our family, to taint the semi-white appearance he worked hard to acquire ,” Azoulay writes in her new book, Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, She accuses her father of having “betrayed the ancestors,” condemning the logic of a man who had learned to conflate erasure with progress.
After that, Azoulay reclaimed the name her father had refused: Aïsha. It was only as an adult, when she read her father’s birth certificate, that the political theorist Ariella Aïsha Azoulay learned the name of her paternal grandmother-and the fact she was of Algerian descent. Content warning: This interview contains descriptions of sexual assault.
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