Ahmed Bedjaoui

Ahmed Bedjaoui (in arabic : أحمد بجاوي), born in 1943 in Sebdou in Algeria, is a journalist, host, director, writer and an emblematic figure, the “Mister” of Algerian cinema. He hosted the famous Télé Ciné Club from 1969 to 1989. With his particular tone, but above all content, he introduced Algerians to the classics of cinema. He knew, with pedagogy, and the guests he invited to the set, how to dissect a film. We could see, with relish, the works of Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman, Salah Abou Seif, and, of course, Algerian films. Ahmed Bedjaoui has had a solid career in the press, cinema and television. Graduated from IDHEC in 1966, and held a P.H.D. since 1983. in American literature with a thesis on Scott Fitzgerald and Hollywood. A freelance journalist in the written press since 1966, in charge, among other things, of the cinema, television and radio sections, he was successively from 1969, producer and presenter of programs on cinema on Algerian Television, programmer and head o...