Azouz Begag

Minister for Employment, Social Cohesion and Housing

Minister Delegate for Equal Opportunities

 

Azouz Begag was born in Lyon in 1957.

Azouz Begag is a writer, a sociologist and researcher at the CNRS. He is, currently, the minister delegate for equal opportunities of France in the Villepin government.

Begag's academic career, culminating in his place as a research sociologist at the CNRS, as well as his political career to date, have also centred around the problems of unequal opportunity for those brought up in industrial suburbs and ghettoes.

May 2004: Charged by the Minister of State, Minister of the Interior and Regional Development of the interior Safety and the local Freedom of a mission on equal opportunity.

 

2004 - 2005: member of the Economic and Social Council.

 

Mr. Begag is Chevalier de l’ordre national du Mérite and Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur.

 

 

 

Bibliography:

 

Le Gone du Chaâba (1986) ;
Béni ou le Paradis privé (1989) ;
L’Ilet aux vents (1992) ;
Les Chiens aussi (1995) ;
Zenzela (1997) ;
Dis Oualla (1997) ;
Tranches de vie (1998).