Rabah Belamri (Arabic: رابح بلعمري; 11 October 1946 – 28 September 1995) was an Algerian writer.
After studying at Sétif High School, at the École des jeunes aveugles in Algiers, at the École normale d'instituteurs of Bouzareah and at the University of Algiers, he arrived in 1972 in Paris where he supported a doctorate entitled L'œuvre de Louis Bertrand, Miroir de l'idéologie coloniale which was published by the Office des publications universitaires [fr] in 1980.
It is time to collect the treasures of our oral culture, threatened with disappearance by the tumult of television.
A need for light as a long refused water but also a denunciation of all that strikes everyday life and hope: the alienated or bargained woman, the sequestered happiness.He has breath, force, violence in the warmth and tenderness that testify to another earth, another sun than ours, in short of another tradition.His work spoke of the difficulty of being, of exile, of solitude.
But it also spoke to us of tenderness, it carried us away in its impulse towards the humiliated, towards all those whom contemporary violence crushed, abandoned.