Mohamed Kacimi Explained

Mohamed Kacimi
Birth Date:1955
Birth Place:El Hamel, French Algeria
Occupation:Novelist, playwright

Mohamed Kacimi (born 1955) is an Algerian novelist and playwright.

Early life

Mohamed Kacimi was born in 1955 in El Hamel, French Algeria.[1] [2] [3] He was raised as a Muslim, and he attended both French and Islamic schools as Zawiyet El Hamel.[3] He emigrated to France in 1981, settling in Paris.[3]

Career

Kacimi is the author of several novels, plays and non-fiction books. His first novel, Le mouchoir, was turned down fourteen times before it was published by L'Harmattan in 1987.[3] His 2006 play, Terre sainte, received a good review from Le Figaro when it was performed in Avignon in 2013.[4] Meanwhile, Kacimi also worked as a translator and a ghostwriter.[3] He was also a contributor to Actuel, a French magazine, and he produced Les Chemins de la connaissance on France Culture. In 2005, he was, with others authors such as Alain Decaux, Richard Millet and Jean-Pierre Thiollet, one of the Beirut Book Fair's guests in the Beirut International Exhibition & Leisure Center, commonly (BIEL).[5]

Kacimi is a critic of Al Jazeera.[6] In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shooting of 7 January 2015, he wrote a Facebook post relating remarks voiced by teenagers from Val-de-Marne against Charlie Hebdo; however, he was unable to explain where he had heard them specifically, leading Marianne and other media outlets to wonder if he had made them up.[7]

Works

Novels

Plays

Non-fiction

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Qāsimī, Muḥammad (1955-....) forme internationale système ISO de translittération simplifiée (hébreu, arabe, etc.) arabe الحسّاني, محمّد قاسمي (1955-....) forme internationale arabe. Bibliothèque nationale de France. October 7, 2016.
  2. Web site: Kacimi, Mohamed (1955-.....). IdRef. October 7, 2016.
  3. Web site: Mohamed Kacimi. Bibliothèque francophone multimédia de Limoges. October 7, 2016.
  4. News: Simon. Nathalie. Terrifiant voyage en Terre sainte. October 7, 2016. Le Figaro. July 18, 2013.
  5. Web site: Objectif Diffusion Adami - SACD : Terre Sainte (Bande annonce) - Vidéo Dailymotion.
  6. News: Kacimi. Mohamed. " Etre solidaires des Palestiniens sans céder au réflexe tribal ". October 7, 2016. Le Monde. July 24, 2014. Ces derniers jours, tous les esprits sont chauffés à blanc par Al-Jazira. Cette chaîne vit du commerce des cadavres. Elle a une passion pour les morgues, ses caméras ne sortent jamais des ambulances et des tombes..
  7. News: Doiezie. Mathilde. Propos anti-Charlie Hebdo, la réalité très subjective de Mohamed Kacimi. October 7, 2016. Le Figaro. January 30, 2015.

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