Mohamed Kacimi

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

Early life Mohamed Kacimi was born in 1955 in El Hamel, French Algeria. He was raised as a Muslim, and he attended both French and Islamic schools as Zawiyet El Hamel. Meanwhile, Kacimi also worked as a translator and a ghostwriter.

Kacimi is a critic of Al Jazeera. 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.

Works Novels

Plays

Non-fiction