Malek Chebel (1953 – 12 November 2016) was a notable Algerian philosopher and anthropologist of religions .

[1] Born in 1953 at Philippeville, now Skikda in Algeria, Chebel pursued his primary and secondary studies there and obtained his baccalaureate in philosophy and Arab letters.

Freedom guides his reflection about the body, desire, love, relations between men and women, but also about tolerance, politic engagement, and generosity.

Understanding the ways of thinking, of living, the sensibilities of the other to go beyond hatred, giving him a place in this world.

“The majority of Muslims are caught between two groups: on the one hand a small group of violent Muslims who want to Islamize the world; and on the other hand the majority of the Western people who don’t understand Islam”.

He states, “It in the name of these centuries that I work; in the name of many scientists, writers, grammarians, jurists, doctors that I speak."