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Early life

Naili was born the daughter of Rabah Naili, professor in

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and specialist in

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from Azefoun in

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province, and Hafida Bouhired, model designer from

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whose family lived at the

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. After Naili's parents divorced, she moved with her mother and younger brother Arslan Larbi Redouan, to the family home, Bouhired, located in the heights of Algiers. She is raised by her mother and maternal aunts Zina, Leila, and Houria Bouhired.

Education

In 2007 Naili had her general French Baccalaureate S series studies in the Lycée International of Alexandre-Dumas in Algiers and graduated from the Higher School of Fine Arts in Algiers in 2016. In 2018 she was preparing a doctoral thesis under the theme "Creation and urban heritage: For a practice of contemporary art through the rehabilitation of Algiers "at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Naili has also undertaken various training courses in

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and

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on the rehabilitation of

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s. à 1ː55 seconde sur la chaîne officiel de

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She also participated in several trainings with

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, such as the workshop "Volunteer Management and Public / Private Participation Projects", in July 2017, and at the Med Culture Training "Community Awareness" Resilient to Cultural Heritage Values," in Amman,

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in October 2018 and the Net Med Youth Training Program "Increasing appetite for creative digital technologies among young cultural heritage defenders" held in

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in December 2018.

Career and projects

Naili is a member and Secretary General of ''Save the Casbah'' Association of Algiers. She is also the cofounder of the ''Awakened Youth Movement''. In 2016, Nahla with her brother Arslan and her cousin Selma Bouhired, initiated The NAS Workshop, a space for reflection for all artistic expressions.

Exhibitions

, 2018

Family

Her mother, Hafida Bouhired, was the youngest of five siblings from her grandmother's first marriage. Naili's maternal grandfather Mustapha Bouhired was a player in the

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and sports journalist for

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. He fought in the

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for the

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before becoming an FLN militant of the Algerian revolution. He was shot dead in the Casbah of Algiers, on 14 March 1957, after his arrest. Her maternal grandmother Fatiha Bouhired, born Hattali Oukhiti, was also

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like her husband, and throughout the Algerian war the family houses were used as a refuge for the main leaders of the urban guerrillas in Algiers. She was arrested twice at the family home, one with

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Zohra Drif Zohra Drif Bitat ( ar, زهرة ظريف بيطاط, Zuhra Ḍrīf Bīṭāṭ, born 28 December 1934) is a retired Algerian lawyer, moudjahid (a militant of the Algerian War of Independence), and the vice-president of the Council of the Nation ...

, as well as with her six-month-old daughter Hafida Bouhired, who was imprisoned in

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and released.

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