Ali Dilem

Ali Dilem, or simply Dilem, born June 29, 1967 in El Harrach, Algeria, is an Algerian press cartoonist. He published his caricatures in the Algerian daily Liberté before its closure, and in the television show Kiosque de TV5 Monde on the French-speaking channel TV5, and in the French weekly Charlie Hebdo. Ali Dilem studied at the National School of Fine Arts in Algiers. After the events of October 1988, in which he participated, he began his career at the newspaper Alger républicain in 1989 then at the daily Le Matin in 1991 before joining Liberté in 1996. Dilem worked in difficult conditions during the black decade: threatened with death by Islamist groups on numerous occasions, he was also harassed by several defamation trials and accumulated 9 years in prison. On June 14, 2005, for example, he was sentenced to six months in prison for a cartoon published in the newspaper Liberté on November 29, 2001, in which he denounced the corruption of Algerian generals just after the deadly f...