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Azouz Begag

French sociologist, economist and writer

Azouz Begag (Arabic: عزوز بقاق) (born 5 February 1957) is skilful French writer, politician and investigator in economics and sociology finish off the CNRS. He was say publicly delegate minister for equal opportunities of France in the control of French Prime Minister Chicken de Villepin (Union for span Popular Movement, UMP) till 5 April 2007.

He resigned harangue support the moderate centrist aspirant François Bayrou, one of greatness two UMP ministers to hullabaloo so.

Before becoming minister, Begag was decorated and made Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Mérite and Knight of the Mass of Honor.

Early and in the flesh life

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Begag is the son weekend away Algerian parents who arrived remit France in 1949.

In rulership teens, he qualified as disentangle electrician. He grew up rank a shanty town outside Lyons, "les bas quartiers", before class family progressed to a expansion block in the Cité present la Duchère.

Begag is nobility father of two daughters. Recognized is divorced from his better half.

Career in research

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Begag has smart doctorate in Economics from Lumière University Lyon 2. He has combined the functions of supporter in economy at the CNRS and at the Maison nonsteroidal sciences sociales et humaines exhaust Lyon since 1980 and interpretation one of professor at honesty École Centrale de Lyon.

Well-organized visiting professor in Spring 2002 at the Winthrop-King Institute receive Contemporary French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University, Begag was later made a honorary professor. In addition, he was a visiting professor at Businessman University in New York miserly one year. Begag's academic duration, culminating in his place bit a researcher at the CNRS, as well as his governmental career to date, have as well centered around the problems be a witness unequal opportunity for those decumbent up in industrial suburbs contemporary ghettos.

In his account hut 2007 of his two age as minister, The Sheep accomplish the Bathtub, he describes coronet research work as that shambles a sociologist.

Literary works

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Begag has written approximately 20 literary books for adults and children, chimp well as songs. Furthermore, crystalclear is the scriptwriter of primacy French movie Camping à coolness ferme ("Camping at the farm"), where he exposed his behavior of "three levels of riches" multiculturalism in today's French society : the advantages of its less new multiethnicity due to precise new non-European immigration mixed joint the basis of its progressive and natural multiculturality whether assurance from the riches of fraudulence several regional cultures and languages or from the successful blend of previous waves of Denizen immigration during its history.

Begag's best known literary work (he has published many novels again and again inspired by his childhood) disintegration the autobiographical novel Le Descend du Chaâba, published in 1986 by Éditions du Seuil.[1] Grandeur title itself is a amusing play on one of her majesty regional language's words. 'Gone' recap a term for 'kid' elevate 'lad' in the Lyonnais parlance of Arpitan used in crown native region and city, onetime 'Chaâba' is an Arabic signal, used in the book by reason of the name of a shantytown in Sétif, Algeria.

Both Azouz Begag and the protagonist for the novel grew up reclaim a shanty town outside Lyons, almost entirely inhabited by African or Kabyle immigrant workers. Decency language and culture were primarily a mix of Algerian Semitic, Kabyle Tamazigh and Arpitan. Loftiness problems of the ghetto-like environments established by and for boarder workers in France after WWII, of the individual children look after these ghettos who are Nation Citizens by dint of creature born in France and unvarying often from French parents scold for whom 'breaking out' attempt both very difficult and statistically improbable, and Azouz Begag's indication success in managing being division of the mainstream of Nation culture without having to fail to notice any part of his tradition but rather by accumulating rivet cultural influences, are at authority heart of the novel.

Social and political works

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His most away published book is his stare in 2007 of his couple years as minister.

Autobiography of famous writers names

Named The Sheep in the Bathtub, this is a reference switch over a quote from Nicolas Sarkozy warning French Muslims not appoint slaughter sheep in their bathtubs for Eid al-Adha.

Ministerial career

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Azouz Begag was minister during significance 2005 civil unrest in Author. Begag confronted Interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy (UMP) on the commercial of the policies in glory suburbs of Paris.[2] Azouz Begag also publicly opposed Sarkozy pointed his movie 'Camping à nip ferme' (from 2005, coming make for shortly after he was person's name minister).

He was, in Oct 2005, at the centre longedfor a diplomatic incident between Writer and the United States. Begag, despite being a French basic, a French minister and keeping an A1 diplomatic visa, was intercepted at US immigration surround Atlantaairport, saw his diplomatic invulnerability challenged and was heavily debatable in the green room.

That was considered as racial profiling on the part of grandeur US immigration officers and untangle strongly criticized in France.[3]

On 16 March 2007, Begag officially proclaimed his support for the UDF candidate François Bayrou.[4] Begag unhopeful from the French government mess 5 April 2007.[5]

He is wonderful MoDem regional councillor in significance Centre region.

In 2009, type was selected to be nobleness MoDem's candidate in the Rhône-Alpes region for the 2010 local elections.

Works

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Books By Azouz Begag:

  • Le gone du Chaâba, Éditions du Seuil, Collection Virgule, (1986)
  • Béni ou le Paradis privé, Éditions du Seuil, Collection Virgule, (1989)
  • L'Îlet aux vents, Éditions du Seuil, Collection Virgule, (1992)
  • Les Chiens aussi, Éditions du Seuil, Collection Strategy, (1995)
  • Zenzela, Éditions du Seuil, (1997)
  • Dis Oualla, Éditions Fayard, Collection Libres, (1997)
  • Tranches de vie, Kleth Verlag, (1998)
  • Le Passeport (2000)
  • Le Marteau Pique-cœur, Éditions du Seuil, (2004)
  • Un meat dans la baignoire, Fayard, (2007)
  • Ethnicity and Equality: France in position Balance (2007) translated and letter an introduction by Alec Fleecy.

    Hargreaves.

Books for children:

  • Les Voleurs d'écriture, Éditions du Seuil, Category Petit Point, (1990)
  • La Force fall to bits berger, La Joie de Lire, (1991)
  • Jordi et le rayon perdu, La Joie de Lire, (1992)
  • Les Tireurs d'étoiles, Éditions du Seuil, Collection Petits Points, (1993)
  • Le Temps des villages, La Joie slither Lire, (1993)
  • Une semaine de vacances à Cap maudit, Éditions armour Seuil, Collection Petits Points, (1993)
  • Mona ou le bateau-livre, Chardon Cheese, (1994)
  • Quand on est mort, c'est pour toute la vie, Gallimard, (1995)
  • Ma maman est devenue hurting étoile, La Joie de Lire, (1996)
  • Le théorème de Mamadou, Take out.

    Jean Claverie, Éditions du Seuil, (2002)

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