Chérif Arbouz

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He also collected folklore and wrote a book on Berber grammar, a transliteration system for Berber languages.
Chérif Arbouz died on 17 March 2021 at the age of 91.
Works
* (Fantastic Odyssey) (2011): Set in the mid-21st century, when climate upheaval and demographic pressures had brought humanity to the edge of the abyss, the novel tells of the return of the Stargils, aliens who had already come to earth in the fourth century before our era, opens the way to a new era. The novel rests on a dialectic relationship between the human past in the classical era of Ancient Greece and a near-future extrapolated from fundamental tendencies seen today. It was inspired by the concept of the "fulfillment society" developed by Julian Huxley in his essay New Bottles for New Wine (1957) and its urgent call to learned men and the powers in place, to go towards a human society of accomplishment (reprinted by the New Scientist, 1963). This effort allows the contours of what might be a future global unity to be drawn, the outcome of a long selection and evolutionary process applied to human societies.
*C'était en Algérie au temps des colonies (It was in Algeria in Colonial Times) (Editions Ines, 2011) - "stuffed with tales and anecdotes"
*La Grande Énigme (The Great Enigma) (2012) Arbouz continues the space saga of the Stargils that begun in Fantastique Odyssée. Once Earth is saved, the Stargils pursue their dream of a galactic union. They discover the planet Azad, traces of an ancient unknown world, and the involuntary heir to a lost civilization, an android who becomes the hero of a cosmic epic. Arbouz reflects on the nature of humanity and the evolution of science. Starting from the progress of artificial intelligence, he speculates on the emergence of a living and omniscient cybernetic being with superior powers of reason.
* Le Seigneur aux panthères (Lord of Panthers) (2012) - The Middle Ages in Algeria was a period of political and social effervescence rarely negotiated by historians and novelists. This series of two novels are set in the Kabylia of the 15th and 16th centuries. Le seigneur aux panthères du Djurdjura introduces a fictional character, Lyazid, a young man of high birth robbed of his birthright, surrounded by protagonists from 16th-century Algeria. The historical novel L’étranger de Tigrine (The Foreigner of Tigrine) is set in Djurdjura in the second half of the 15th century and was inspired by an anonymous epic poem, Le forgeron (The Blacksmith of Akalous). The way of life of the 15th century Kabyles is faithfully rendered.

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