Who do you see as the potential market for your book?


This book has a tendency towards a philosophical genre, more than anything else it is a book of natural personal rebellion. It is for everyone who is not fully satisfied with the way in which things and society works; it is for people who like to be challenged intellectually. I would like to believe there are a vast number of people that fall into this category so I am not really aiming at a certain gender or age group. People are now more aware of current affairs and are more clued-up to other minor international communities. The only question is have they been taught the truth and from reliable sources. What do you hope your book will achieve?

(Entertain? Amuse? Inform? Agitate? Expose?)It is a simple message indeed: Letting people know the whole truth even if its taste is bitter. I would like to inform my readers and hope that my book can be the catalyst for their thinking moving forward to finding the answers to so many unanswered questions. I have used some shock tactics and some humour to lift the mood of some of the graveness of the issues that I deal with.

What are your aspirations as a writer? (For example, to become a best-selling novelist, to shed light on a subject that fascinates you, to tell a story that needs to be told or just to exorcise your personal demons...)

The surprise was big, I never envisaged myself writing a book. The factors are numerous, all of which have contributed and pushed me to write and enter this wonderful world, which only writers are aware of, I am sure. It was a big personal privilege to accomplish this book. A relief to express feelings which have persecuted me all my life, It was almost therapeutic putting my thoughts from pen to paper and then bringing them to life.

At the age of twenty-five I began to drive the first ideas of revolution away from my head. Algeria had just come out of colonial rule and boasted a government no better than the previous one, in fact worse. I could never bring myself to accept the socialist/communist rule, with its added big dose of dictatorship too! I began a movement that led to the courts sentencing me to death in my absence in’86. In '90 there was an amnesty on political convicts so believing that I would be safe, I returned to live in my homeland only to realise that it was a trap. I made sure my family left safely to the UK before I fled too. But my troubles did not end there. I was sentenced to death once more in ’92, and in '93 the Algerians again tried to smear my name. They accused me of an attack on an airport where many died and claimed I was being held by the British authorities. I found all of this fascinating as I was watching the plot unravel in front of me on my TV.





WHO ARE YOU?
I am the father of three girls and three boys, but this number has been reduced to three as one son is in Belmarsh prison accused of crimes he did not commit , another two sons are on the run from the authorities I am also grandfather to their children. I am of Algerian origin, coming from a family from the countryside. They owned a lot of land so my earliest memories where that of farming, mountains, goats. They moved well before my birth to the city but the link with the countryside was always very strong...


YOUR EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

To continuous torment was eating at me, which never helped me to continue nevertheless it is in life where I persevered and acquired my knowledge.