This article examines the societal place of the Algerian woman since the outbreak of the civil war in the early 1990s. The first two feature films by Algerian director Nadir Moknèche. Le Harem de Mme Ousmane (2000) and Viva Laldjérie (2004), trace the end of the traditional garem and the initiation of a new social structure, wich the author calls the modern harem...