Ahmed Rouadjia

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Born (1947-04-02) April 2, 1947 (age 77)
NationalityAlgerian
CitizenshipAlgeria
Occupation
  • Historian
  • journalist

Ahmed Rouadjia (In Arabic أحمد رواجعية), was born on April 2, 1947, in Oulad Djellal,Biskra, south of Algeria, he is an Algerian Historian, Journalist and Political Scientist, specialist in Anthropology of Religious Movements, Professor at Mohammed Boudiaf University, Director of Historical and Social and Socio-Economic Changes Laboratory at the same institution[1].

Academic itinerary and teaching

Ahmed Rouadjia obtained his PhD from the University of Paris VII[2] after that; he was initially recruited as an Assistant Professor (Maître Assistant) in the field of Historical Studies, University of Constantine, Algeria, from 1983 to 1987. Following that, he moved to France where he taught Political Sciences as an Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) at the University of Versailles. In parallel with his teaching duties, he held several research positions, in which he worked as a Researcher at Center for History of Law and Information Research at Picardie Jules Vernes University, from 1991 to 1999, and as a Researcher Associate (chercheur associé) at the National Institute of Demographic Studies, the period from 1997 to 2000 [3]. He teaches History and Political Sociology at the University of Mohamed Boudiaf in الجزائر / ⴷⵣⴰⵢⵔ|Algeria since 2006. Additionally he heads the Laboratory of Historical and Social Studies and socio-economic changes at the same academic institution[4].

Research career

Rouadjia studied the various sociological issues, social transformations, symbolic systems, anthropological rituals and imaginary narratives that constitute the Algerian social self. His approaches and empirical findings were adapted to analyze and interpret the various phenomena that were approached. In addition, his studies and scientific publications have provided us with theoretical and conceptual frameworks to understand many sociological and cultural phenomena within the Algerian society. Broadly speaking, his academic heritage is structurally related to Urban sociology, the Anthropology of Religious Phenomena, Patterns of Religiosity, Algerian Feminist discourse, political patterns and new forms of crime and violence in daily Algerian landscape[5]

Journalistic career

Ahmed Rouadjia has a rich experience in the field of journalism. He is well known for his journalistic approaches which are characterized by critical depth and aesthetic dimension added to the stylistics of his language. He began the journalistic writing in the 1980s of the last century in the French newspaper Libération, where he used to publish his contributions. His primary focus by then was on issues related to immigration and immigrants from North Africa, realities of their integration into the host French society and the anthropology of their daily lives. After his return to his native country, he has continued his journalistic experience, to this day, where he publishes his contributions periodically in Algerian French-speaking newspapers, especially Quotidien d'Oran, El-Watan, Liberté and L'Expression. The typology of his articles addressed the Algerian political scene, the sociology of the elite, social transformations, issues of identity and modernity, the challenges of the Algerian symbolic system, the obstacles of democratic transformation and the history of the National movement|national movement. Due to his experience in the field of journalism, he was designated by the BBC in the 1990s as a jury member in the examinations to recruit new journalists.

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