Albert Memmi
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1920-12-15 ) 15 December 1920, Tunis , French Tunisia
- Died
- 22 May 2020 (2020-05-22) (aged 99), Neuilly-sur-Seine , France
- Occupations
- Writer, essayist
- Notable work
- The Colonizer and the Colonized
- Spouse
- Marie-Germaine Dubach
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Albert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Tunisia
- Place of birth
- Tunis
- Place of death
- 4th arrondissement of Paris
- Occupation
- essayist
- Educated at
- Carnot high school Tunis
- Employer
- HEC Paris
- Languages spoken
- Arabic
- Native language
- French
- Movement
- postcolonialism
- Image
- Albert Memmi par Claude Truong-Ngoc décembre 1982.jpg
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- member of
- Académie des sciences d'outre-mer
- date of birth
- 1920-12-15
- Commons category
- Albert Memmi
- name in native language
- ألبير ممي
- date of death
- 2020-05-22
- start of work period
- 1953-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Albert Memmi (Arabic: ألبير ممّي; 15 December 1920 – 22 May 2020) was a French-Tunisian writer and essayist of Tunisian Jewish origins. A prominent intellectual, his nonfiction books and novels explored his complex identity as an anti-imperialist, deeply related to his ardent Zionism. He viewed Zionism as a form of "anti-colonialism."
Biography
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