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List Of Algerians
Notable Algerians include: Artists Writers (including poets) * Ferhat Abbas (1899–1985), political leader and essayist * Mohamed Aïchaoui (1921–1959), political leader and journalist * Abdelkader Alloula (born 1939), playwright *Al-Akhdari (1512–1575), Arab-Algerian poet, Alim, Astronomer, Jurist and Logician of sherifian descent. *Malek Alloula (born 1937), poet, writer, and critic * Djamal Amrani (1935–2005), poet and essayist * Jean Amrouche (1906–1962), 20th-century poet and writer * Taos Amrouche (1913–1976), singer and writer * Apuleius (c. 125–c. 180 C.E.), Latin prose writer * Mohammed Arkoun (born 1928), scholar and thinker * Leila Djabali (born 1933) *Zighen Aym (born 1957), writer and engineer *Farida Belghoul (born 1958), author *Omar Belhouchet (born 1954), journalist *Albert Camus (born 1913), journalist, author, philosopher *Mohammed Benchicou (born 1952), director and publisher of the Algerian newspaper Le Matin *Salah Benlabed (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algeria
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Omar Belhouchet
Omar Belhouchet (born 9 February 1954 in Sétif) is an Algerian journalist who is renowned for his investigative reporting and supporting freedom of the press; his work and persistence have received international recognition. During the civil war of the 1990s, which put enormous pressure on the free press from both sides, Belhouchet was prosecuted numerous times by his government and survived two assassination attempts. Belhouchet started his journalism career at Algérie Presse Service followed by reporting for ''El Moudjahid'' (English: "The Holy Warrior"), the FLN government-owned newspaper. After the government allowed independent newspapers, in 1990 Belhouchet founded the daily newspaper '' El Watan'' (English: "The Nation"), together with nineteen colleagues from ''El Moudjahid''. Journalism Belhouchet received a degree in economics from the University of Algiers, and first went to work for Algérie Presse Service. He moved as a journalist to ''El Moudjahid,'' the gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miloud Hmida
Miloud Homida () (born 1976) is an Algerian poet, critic and translator. He was born at Djelfa Djelfa ( ar, الجلفة, link=no, al-Ǧilfah) is the capital city of Djelfa Province, Algeria and the site of ancient city and former bishopric Fallaba, which remains a Latin catholic titular see. It has a population of 490,248 (2018 census). T .... Publications and activities * Latin pages: impressions of modern Latin literature, the publishing Dar Mime (Assia Ali Mousa). * Wind of solitude, The Publishing House Linaeditoria, Mexico. * DACA/ IF; translation of a poem by the Romanian poet Elena Liliana Popescu, with forty other translators, publishing Pelerin, Bucharest. * Participation in the Spanish-American Anthology, published in Peru and by the poet Leo Zelada, a member of The House of Poetry in Spain. * A number of translations of several Spanish poets. References External links translation from Arabic 1961 births Algerian literary critics Algerian male poets Algeria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohamed Hassaïne
Mohamed Hassaïne ( ar, محمد حساين) (born in Beni Amrane on 5 January 1945, and died in Larbatache on 28 February 1994) was an Algerian journalist. Early life Hassaïne was born in 1945 in the village of Azela within the Thénia District in the lower Kabylia region of Algeria, east of the Khachna Massif and south-east of the town of Boumerdès. After primary and intermediate studies in Beni Amrane, Hassaïne continued his secondary education at a high school in Algiers, where he obtained the diploma of higher technician in agriculture, and began his professional career by working in the agricultural sub-directorate of Khemis El Khechna under the agricultural directorate of the Boumerdès Province. Socialist Vanguard Party Hassaïne joined as a militant within the Socialist Vanguard Party (PAGS), and he knew how to translate the main political principles of the Algerian left into simple militant actions centered on taking care of the daily concerns of the humbl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mouloud Feraoun
Mouloud Feraoun (8 March 1913 – 15 March 1962) was an Algerian writer and martyr of the Algerian revolution born in Tizi Hibel, Kabylie. Some of his books, written in French, have been translated into several languages including English and German. In 1951, he corresponded with the Algeria-born French author Albert Camus. He was kidnapped and assassinated by the French OAS on 15 March 1962. All of his works describe Feraoun's native society – the Berber mountain farmers – and their life, poverty, the love of one's homeland, emigration, and the consequences of French colonialism. On 3 March 2022, in a ceremony in Algiers, French president Emmanuel Macron honored Feraoun and other victims of the OAS. Biography Feraoun was born in 1913, belonging to a family of poor farmers. His father, who was illiterate, had to migrate several times to seek employment, for example to Tunisia and even to northern France, where he worked in the coal mines of the Nord departement. There, Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tahar Djaout
Tahar Djaout (11 January 1954 – 2 June 1993) was an Algerian journalist, poet, and fiction writer. He was assassinated in 1993 by the Armed Islamic Group. Early life He was born in 1954 in Oulkhou, a village in the Kabylie region. After university he worked as a journalist for ''Algérie Actualité'', and by the late 1980s, he became one of Algeria's foremost literary talents. Assassination He was assassinated by the Armed Islamic Group because of his support of secularism and opposition to what he considered fanaticism. He was attacked on 26 May 1993 as he was leaving his home in Algiers Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques d ..., Algeria. He died on 2 June, after lying in a coma for a week. One of his attackers professed that he was murdered because he "wielded a fear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed Dib
Mohammed Dib ( ar, محمد ديب; 21 July 1920 – 2 May 2003) was an Algerian author. He wrote over 30 novels, as well as numerous short stories, poems, and children's literature in the French language. He is probably Algeria's most prolific and well-known writer. His work covers the breadth of 20th century Algerian history, focusing on Algeria's fight for independence. Life Dib was born in Tlemcen in Algeria, near the border with Morocco, into a middle-class family which had descended into poverty. After losing his father at a young age, Dib started writing poetry at 15. At the age of 18, he started working as a teacher in nearby Oujda in Morocco. In his twenties and thirties he worked in various capacities as a weaver, teacher, accountant, interpreter (for the French and British military), and journalist (for newspapers including ''Alger Républicain'' and ''Liberté'', an organ of the Algerian Communist Party). In 1952, two years before the Algerian revolution, he married a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hélène Cixous
Hélène Cixous (; ; born 5 June 1937) is a French writer, playwright and literary critic. She is known for her experimental writing style and great versatility as a writer and thinker, her work dealing with multiple genres: theater, literary and feminist theory, art criticism, autobiography and poetic fiction. Since 1967, she has published a considerable body of work consisting of some seventy titles, mainly published in the original French by Grasset, Gallimard, Des femmes and Galilée. Cixous is perhaps best known for her 1976 article "The Laugh of the Medusa", which established her as one of the early thinkers in post-structural feminism. Her plays have been directed by Simone Benmussa at the Théâtre d'Orsay, by Daniel Mesguich at the Théâtre de la Ville and by Ariane Mnouchkine at the Théâtre du Soleil. During her academic career she was primarily associated with the Centre universitaire de Vincennes (today's University of Paris VIII), where she founded the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohamed Cherak
Mohamed Cherak ( ar, محمد شراق; 14 August 1977 – 17 November 2018) was an Algerian journalist and editor-in-chief. Early life Cherak was born in 1977 in the town of Hammadi, in the lower Kabylia region of Algeria, west of the Khachna Massif and south-west of the town of Boumerdès. After primary and intermediate studies in Hammadi and Khemis El Khechna, Cherak continued his studies in journalism, information science and communication studies at the Algiers 3 University where he obtained his bachelor's degree in 1998. Cherak began his professional journalism career with the daily El Fadjr in 2000 while a student at the École Nationale Supérieure de Journalisme et des Sciences de l'Information (ITFC) in Algiers. He proved himself professionally at the daily El Ahdath in 2002, and was promoted as its editor-in-chief. He wrote articles there under the pseudonym Mohamed Abdul Quddus ( ar, محمد عبد القدوس). El Khabar Cherak joined the editorial team of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachid Boudjedra
Rachid Boudjedra ( ar, رشيد بوجدرة) (b. 5 September 1941 in Aïn Beïda, Algeria) is an Algerian poet, novelist, playwright and critic. Boudjedra wrote in French from 1965 to 1981, at which point he switched to writing in Arabic, often translating his own works back and forth between the two languages. Boudjedra returned to writing in French in 1992 and has continued to write in that language ever since. Educated in Constantine and in Tunis (at the Collège Sadiki), Boudjedra later fought for the FLN during the Algerian War of Independence. He received his degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne, where he wrote a thesis on Céline. Upon receiving his degree, he returned to Algeria to teach, but was sentenced to two years in prison for his criticisms of the government and was exiled to Blida. He lived in France from 1969 till 1972, and then in Rabat, Morocco until 1975. Boudjedra's fiction is written in a difficult, complex style, reminiscent of William Faulkner or Gabr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malek Bennabi
Malek Bennabi (1 January 1905 – 31 October 1973) ( ar, مالك بن نبي) was an Algerian writer and philosopher, who wrote about human society, particularly Muslim society with a focus on the reasons behind the fall of Muslim civilization. According to Malek Bennabi, the lack of new ideas in Islamic thought emerged what he coined ''civilizational bankruptcy''. He argued that in order to recover its former magnificence, Islamic society had to become an environment in which individuals felt empowered. In order to satisfy his spiritual and material needs, a Muslim needed to feel that his industry and creativity would find reward. Education Bennabi was born in Constantine, Algeria in 1905. Educated in Paris and Algiers in engineering, he later based himself in Cairo, where he spent much of his time working extensively in the fields of history, philosophy and sociology. In 1963, after returning to Algeria, he witnessed modern scientific inventions and technological creation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latifa Ben Mansour
Latifa Ben Mansour ( ar, لطيفة بن منصور) (born 1950 in Tlemcen) is an Algerian writer, psychoanalyst, and linguist. Her work deals with issues such as the role of women in Algerian society, Islamic extremism, storytelling, trauma, and memory. Biography Having studied Linguistics at the École Normale Supérieure d'Alger, where she obtained her Ph.D. in the subject, Ben Mansour went on to teach it at the University of Paris III and communications at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger ins .... She received the ''Prix méditerranéen de la nouvell''e in 1996 for her short story "Le Cocu Cadi". Her novel, ''La Prière de la peur'', 1997 (ed. La Différence) has been awarded the ''Prix Beur FM Méditerranée''. Specific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
