Rabah Belamri, born October 11, 1946 in Bougaa, in the Sétif region, in Algeria, and died September 28, 1995 in Nanterre, is an Algerian writer. Rabah Belamri lost his sight in 1962 (the year of Algeria's independence). After studying at the Sétif high school, at the School for Blind Youth in El Biar (Algiers), at the Bouzareah Teachers' College and at the University of Algiers, he arrived in Paris in 1972