Arezki Metref

Arezki Metref (born May 21, 1952), is an Algerian writer, poet and journalist.[1]

Arezki Metref

Biography

Arezki Metref born in Sour El-Ghozlane, near Bouira, on May 21, 1952. His father, Belaid Metref, a kabyle originating from Aith yenni in Greater Kabylia.[2] Azerki lives in Bouira, then Laghouat, and in Algiers from 1956. Arezki Metref, a student of the Institute of Political Studies in Algiers, became a journalist in 1972, Collaborates in L'Unité, Révolution africaine, El Moudjahid, Algérie-Actualité. In January 1993, he created with Tahar Djaout and Abdelkrim Djaad the weekly Ruptures, of which he was editor-in-chief.[3]

After the assassination of Djaout, he left for France in 1993 and returned to Algeria only in 2001. He collaborated with the London daily The Guardian, in the magazine Autrement, Maghreb-Machrek, Panoramique and in the world section of the weekly Politis. He also gives lectures on Algeria in France and abroad. After publishing numerous books, he began painting in 2003 and exhibited in 2004.

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gollark: Yes, event winners are automatically trustworthy.
gollark: I feel like debate might be better than killing people in terms of usefully changing opinions without running into badness.
gollark: Very "muted".
gollark: Or physically harming them.

References
  1. Photographie et nombreux articlesde la presse algérienne sur les livres d'Arezki Metref]. Archived February 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  2. Déjeux, Jean (1984). Dictionnaire des auteurs maghrébins de langue française (in French). KARTHALA Editions. p. 167. ISBN 9782865370856.
  3. Ali El Hadj Tahar, Encyclopédie de la poésie algérienne de langue française, 1930–2008 (en deux tomes), Alger, Éditions Dalimen, 2009, p956 (ISBN 978-9961-759-79-0).
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