In 1922, the members of the Association of Indigenous Schoolteachers, an organization of Algerian Muslims who taught in the public schools of French Algeria, founded the journal La Voix des Humbles. While the journal addressed a wide range of social, cultural, and political issues throughout its sixteen years in circulation, the issue most central to its contributors was “the woman question”—debates about Muslim women’s limited opportunities. The debate these schoolteachers initiated expanded throughout both the French- and Arabic-language press in the interwar period to include Muslim politicians, French settlers, as well as members of the Muslim Reformist Association of Ouléma. “The woman question” became not only about Muslim women, but also about what a future, modern Algeria would look like. Many of the schoolteachers, for example, described women’s education as a first step towards a modern Algeria that would be politically secular, while religiously Muslim. To make this future possible, they argued that reforms were necessary, notably primary and upper-level education for women, better protection of women in marriage procedures, and a profound reform of inheritance practices. Within these debates, references to France, Tunisia, Egypt, and Turkey in particular were numerous. In their arguments about women’s rights, Muslim intellectuals were inspired by their French education, their attention to successful women’s rights campaigns in Tunisia and Egypt, their admiration for secular regimes in Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan, and the transnational conversations about Islamic reform taking place across North Africa and the Middle East. This paper examines the debates about women that swept the French- and Arabic-language interwar press in Algeria, with particular attention to their transnational dimensions. Such a focus offers an opportunity to move beyond questions of nationalism, and consider how Algerian Muslim thinkers engaged with several intellectual currents that moved transregionally in different directions.