Nafissa Sid Cara

{{Short description|French politician}}

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Nafissa Sid-Cara or Nafissa Sidkara{{citation |last=Forzy|first=Guy|year=2002|title=Ça aussi – c'était De Gaulle, Volume 2|page=134|publisher=Muller édition|quote=La secrétaire d'Etat musulmane Nafissa Sidkara, d'une vieille famille d'origine turque établie en Algérie, et caution involontaire, comme son frère le Docteur Sid Cara lui aussi membre du gouvernement français...|isbn=2904255494}}. (18 April 1910, in El Eulma, Algeria - 1 January 2002, Paris, France) was a French politician. Sid-Cara was the first female minister to serve in the French Fifth Republic as well as the first ever Algerian origin and Muslim woman to serve as a minister in a French government.{{citation |last=Goodwin|first=Stefan|year=2009|title=Africa in Europe: Interdependencies, relocations, and globalization|page=274|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=978-0739127667}}. She was appointed Secretary of State in charge of social affairs in Algeria under Prime Minister Michel Debré in 1959–62.{{citation |last=Shepard|first=Todd|year=2008|title=The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France|page=192|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-0801474545}}. This was the first time a woman was appointed into a French government since 1937.{{citation |last=Shepard|first=Todd|year=2011|chapter=Decolonization and the Republic|title=The French Republic: History, Values, Debates|editor-last1=Berenson|editor-first1=Edward|editor-last2=Duclert|editor-first2=Vincent|editor-last3=Prochasson|editor-first3=Christophe|page=258|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-0801461125}}.