I belong to the East by birth, but Men's personality is not the mere outcome of his genetic prints but also that of his culture, sometimes acquired in hundreds of books… Moreover, I will even say that my claim is neither eastern nor western but that of modernity, which is a need of exigency in men. This need has no colour and no place. Much more than that, it is a sensibility, an availability and a state of mind.

"I was born in march, 18th 1954 at Meurad, Algeria. In my childhood, after school hours, I spent most of my free time drawing cartoons characters with chalk on the street, like some artists of Quartier Latin, Florence or Chicago do it now. I remember very well these persons playing guitar, cow boys Indians or footballers that I liked drawing, my knees on the ground. These thousands of hours spent drawing with chalk helped me know what a correct drawing and a well balanced composition are.

I also started writing when I was very young. When I was a child I held my journal, and inspired by any book I had read, “Tobacco Road” of Caldwell or “Azyadé” of Pierre Loti for instance, I started writing some prose. I was fourteen when I wrote my first poems and I still do it with the same passion.

At the University, I studied American and English literature, in English language, and graduated in 1978. In 1974, when just beginning my university studies, I started writing in the press as a free lancer journalist, using the French language. From then I started specializing in art criticism.

I never stopped drawing but I started painting seriously in 1980. I participated to group exhibitions with non-conformist Algerian artists, like Issiakhem and Khadda. In 2005, I showed my drawings in the Museum of Fine arts, Algiers, with Hakkar.

I am a member of International Press Institute since 1997. In June 1999, one of my reports was on the final selection of ICCROM competition, Media to Save Art, Rome, magazine journalists section.

Publications: Bettina, 1983, Germany, a monography of the german painter.

Poèmes bleus, 1984, ENAL, Algeria: poetry book.

Hachemi Ameur, 2004, monography of a miniaturist, Lapeyronie Editions, France.