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Ahmed Benyahia

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Born on 11 May 1943, in what is today Chelghoum Laïd (formerly known as Chateau-dun-du-Rhumel), Ahmed Benyahia received his early education there. He then grew up at the Arbaïne Cherif [fr], for long considered the intellectual hub of the city of Constantine, a short distance from the school of the famous Algerian polymath and reformist Ben Badis. In 1957, while the apex of the Algerian War of Independence, at age 13, he joined Constantine’s École municipale des Beaux-arts, then under French administration, which allowed him to teach painting, drawing, and history at the Hihi El Mekki High School in Kantara for a year. After distinguishing himself at l’École nationale des beaux-arts [fr] in Algiers, where his works were featured on several major international events (such as, among others, the First International Forum of Algeria) in 1964, he moved to Paris, France, in 1966, where he was admitted to the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In 1972, he was awarded the post of professor at the University of Constantine, and in 1977 exhibited his artworks in the city for the first time. Subsequently, he staged a series of exhibitions in France. While in Constantine, he was commissioned to design a building to commemorate the life of Algerian hero and martyr Zighoud Youcef, who died in 1956 at the age of 35, and the Guelma memorial, which commemorates the victims of the Sétif and Guelma massacre on 8 May 1945.

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Sculpture of the Emir Abdelkader, Mexico City, 1986; Statue of the Military Academy of Cherchell, commemorating the Algerian Struggle for Independence – Sculpture of Algerian national hero Zighoud Youcef, 1968; Co-designer of the César Award trophy, French cinema equivalent of the American Oscar, 1976

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