Elaine Mokhtefi, Bridge Between Algeria's Revolution and Black Panthers, Dies at 97

At 97, Elaine Mokhtefi has died — an American woman who spent her most consequential decades in post-independence Algiers, quietly stitching together the revolutionary aspirations of a newly free nation with the radical movements rising across the Atlantic. She was neither general nor ideologue, but something rarer: a human bridge, whose gift for connection allowed the Black Panthers and Algeria's government to find common cause at the precise moment history made such alliances possible. Her life is a testament to how solidarity between liberation movements is rarely spontaneous — it is made,