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Historian, archivist and former deputy director of the National Archives, and researcher at the Centre for Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Crasc).

He is a retired Professor of Higher Education and an Associate Research Director at CRASC (Oran). He has authored and coordinated numerous publications and notably served as the French Editor of the Africa Review of Books and as a member of the Executive Committee of CODESRIA (Dakar). He is currently dedicated to directing the development of a second edition of the 'Dictionary of Algeria's Past, from Origins to 1962'. In 2023, he was awarded the Ibn Khaldun Prize for the Mediterranean.

Is a sociologist and historian, and the former President of the Oran People's Municipal Assembly (APC) from 2007 to 2010. He is currently an Associate Researcher at CRASC, having previously served as a Permanent Researcher there from 2006 to 2017. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the journal Insaniyat. A member of numerous national and international associations, he has authored several articles and delivered various conference papers.

Research Director in the Department of Socio-Anthropology at the CRASC, History and Memory. She specialises in modern and contemporary history, and her research falls within the field of the humanities, focusing on the study of historical issues and social memory.