Fatiha Boudiaf (Oran, Algeria, 1944), widow of the ex-President of Algeria Mohammed Boudiaf (assassinated in 1992 by fundamentalists), has lived in exile for twenty-eight years. After the death of her husband she decided to stay in Algeria, where she runs the Boudiaf Foundation. This institution strives to perpetuate the ideals of freedom, progress, and social justice in the minds of the Algerian people, so as to disseminate the message of peace that President Boudiaf was a proponent of and to help Algerian women, especially those who are widowed.