Saïd Mekbel

In 1963, he succeeded at the entrance examination of the ENITA (Algerian National engineer and technician military school).

He pursued his studies in the faculty of science at Algiers and obtained a PhD in mechanical fluid engineering in 1978.

In May 1963, he served as an Administrative Officer at the Ministry of Energy, and participated with Beaid Abdesselam and Sid Ahmed Ghozali in the Franco-Algerian negotiations about Petroleum.

Satisfied by this first experience, he decided, in May 1964, to leave his job in the Ministry of Energy and devote himself to writing and working as a full-time journalist.

Following the advice of Henri Alleg who was the director of the newspaper, he participated in the satirical column of “L’Ogre” which will become later “El Ghoul”.

But in 1991, and accompanied by a group of journalists as Mohamed Benchicou and Fodil Mezali, he left Alger Républicain to create the daily newspaper “Le Matin”.