Salah Benlabed (born 1950) is an Algerian

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

, academic, novelist and poet. Formerly a professor of architecture at the

University of Algiers The University of Algiers (Arabic:جامعة الجزائر – بن يوسف بن خـدة ), commonly called the Algiers 1 University, is a public research university located in Algiers, Algeria. It is the oldest and most prestigious universi ...

, he has been based in

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple ...

for more than a decade.Profile of Salah Benlabed on the Plein Lune website (French)
/ref> He has designed numerous architectural projects in both

Algeria ) , image_map = Algeria (centered orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Algiers , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , relig ...

and

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

, including the CCE towers in downtown Montreal.

Career

Benlabed has co-authored a book of poems entitled ''Quand la terre tremble'' (''When the earth trembles''), published by the Algerian Cultural Center. He has participated in the Montreal Festival of the Arab World, delivering lectures and readings of his poems. In 2004, he set up a show on

Abu Nuwas Abū Nuwās al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī al-Ḥakamī (variant: Al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī 'Abd al-Awal al-Ṣabāḥ, Abū 'Alī (), known as Abū Nuwās al-Salamī () or just Abū Nuwās Garzanti ( ''Abū Nuwās''); 756814) was a classical Arabic poet, ...

, the medieval

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...

i poet. Since 2006, Benlabed has published two collections of

short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...

and two novels. In November 2009, the Montreal-based Future Club Foundation honored Benlabed by presenting him with their award for outstanding artistic contribution by an Algerian. His first novel ''Notes d’une musique ancienne'' (''Notes of an Ancient Music'') was published by Editions APIC in Algeria in April 2010.

Works published by Plein Lune (Quebec)

* ''Valise grise (La)'' (short stories, 2006) * ''Notes d’une musique ancienne'' (novel, 2007) * ''De quelques défauts qui font les humains'' (short stories, 2009) * ''Ô combien de marins, combien de capitaines'' (novel, 2010) *''Le dernier refuge'' (novel, 2011)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Benlabed, Salah Algerian architects Algerian novelists 1950 births Living people University of Algiers faculty 21st-century Algerian people