Habiba Laloui

Habiba Laloui, who obtained her PhD and a diploma in discourse analysis, currently works as a professor at the University of Algiers 2. She worked for ten years as a researcher at the Scientific and Technical Research Center on Arabic Language Development (CRSTDLA) in Algiers in which she was affiliated with the Semiotics Translation Laboratory and responsible for the Lisaniyat (Linguistics) journal. She is also a cultural journalist whose articles have appeared in numerous Algerian and Arab periodicals and who continues to contribute critical and creative writings to such publications.
In 2009, Laloui founded the Dialogue for Algerian Culture, a network for young independent cultural activists. In 2011, she was elected representative for North Africa to the U40 Africa platform for young cultural activists under 40. That same year, together with a group of cultural activists, she founded the Algerian Cultural Policy Group which seeks to develop new cultural policies for Algeria and which is currently working to augment the role of civil society in cultural affairs in Algeria.
Her first poetry anthology, Bitter Coffee, Sips After Midnight Sadness, was published in 2011 and her first short story anthology, Three Woman and a Quarter of a Man: Travel Stories, appeared in 2017.