Tahar Ouettar (Arabic: الطاهر وطار; born 1936; died 12 August 2010) was an Algerian writer.
Ouettar was called "one of the North African nation’s most prolific Arabic language authors".
Born into a Berber family in Sedrata, he was a supporter of arabization in the wake of Algerian independence.
The essence of his project, he once said, was to “liberate Algerian identity to make it Arab-Berber-Islamic.” He denounced Algeria's French-language writers as "vestiges of colonialism".
[1] While steadfast in his assault on francophone writers, he defended the use of the Berber language.