Azouz BEGAG

Of Algerian origin, Azouz Begag was born in France in the suburbs of Lyon. Mr BEGAG has a PhD in economics from Lyon 2 University and pursues several careers: novelist, sociologist and screenwriter. He is a Researcher at the CNRS (Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques) and the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Lyon since 1980. He is a specialist in urban socio-economics. His twenty books (both academic and fiction), he values the original culture of migrants and introduces positive identity models.