Abdelmalek Sayad

Abdelmalek Sayad (November 24, 1933, in Beni Djellil, Algeria – March 13, 1998, in Paris, France), was a sociologist, first as an assistant to Pierre Bourdieu, then as a research director at the French CNRS and at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.

Abdelmalek Sayad was born in 1933 in Aghbala, in the Beni Djellil commune in Kabylie, a Berber region in Northern Algeria.

He started working on short-term contracts at the Centre de sociologie européenne at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.

The Association of the friends of Abdelmalek Sayad has organised events surrounding his thought,[2] and contributed to make his work known in France and in Algeria, via an exhibition,[3] conferences and workshops.

La crise de l'agriculture traditionnelle en Algérie (The Uprooting: The Crisis of Traditional Agriculture in Algeria).