Mouny Berrah (Writing)

Mouny Berrah born Mouny Laâzib, in 1949 in Algiers in Algeria within a family originally from Beni Yenni in Kabylia, is an Algerian sociologist and critic for the magazine Les 2 Écrans in particular, on television in Télé Ciné Club. She has published several works on the cinema of the Maghreb and the Arab world. Her brilliant studies of sociology in Paris where she had followed, among others, the courses of Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan, and her great general knowledge, allowed Mouny Berrah to develop a spirit of precise analysis of the arts and always with a sensitive look and fluid and pleasant writing. In the mid-1970s, in France and Algeria in the wake of the world-renowned Algerian Cinematheque, Mouny Berrah was close to cinema circles, in Algeria and elsewhere, rubbing shoulders with directors, technicians and actors, his points of view on the films were already noticed. She regularly collaborated with...Read More