Kamel Daoud

In 2018, his Le Quotidien d'Oran articles (2010-2016) were translated into English.

Following the complaint filed by Kamel Daoud in the Algerian courts over these public death threats by the imam, the Algerian judiciary delivered its judgment on March 8, 2016. It is described as "unprecedented" by his lawyer: Imam Abdelfattah Hamadache Zeraoui was sentenced to six months in prison, three months firm and the equivalent of 450 euros fine. However, this sentence was annulled in June 2016 by the Oran Court of Appeal for "territorial incompetence".

In April 2015, an excerpt from Meursault, contre-enquête was featured in the New Yorker magazine. The November 20, 2015, issue of the New York Times featured an op-ed opinion piece by Daoud titled "Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It" in both English (translated by John Cullen) and French. The February 14, 2016, issue of the New York Times featured a controversial second op-ed piece by Daoud, "The Sexual Misery of the Arab World" in English (translated by John Cullen), French, and Arabic.

On 13 December 2014, in the talk show of Laurent Ruquier On n'est pas couché on France 2, Kamel Daoud says of his relationship to Islam:

Daoud's debut novel, The Meursault Investigation (in French, Meursault, contre-enquête) (2013), won the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman (Goncourt Prize for a First Novel), as well as the prix François Mauriac and the Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie. It was also shortlisted for the Prix Renaudot.

In 1994, he entered Le Quotidien d'Oran, a French-language Algerian newspaper. He published his first column three years later, titled "Raina raikoum" ("Our opinion, your opinion"). He was the Editor in Chief of the newspaper for eight years. He is a Columnist in various media, an editorialist in the online newspaper Algérie-Focus and his articles are also published in Slate Afrique.

Kamel Daoud (Arabic: كمال داود ‎; born June 17, 1970) is an Algerian writer and journalist. He currently edits the French-language daily Le quotidien d’Oran, for which he writes a popular column, "Raïna Raïkoum" (Our Opinion, Your Opinion). The column often includes commentary on the news.

Daoud was born in Mostaganem, Algeria on June 17, 1970. The oldest of six children, he was raised in an Arabic-speaking Muslim family in Algeria. Daoud studied French literature at the University of Oran. Daoud was married but divorced in 2008, after the birth of his daughter as his wife had become increasingly religious (and started wearing the hijab). He is a father to two children (the eldest, a son, the youngest, a daughter) and dedicated his novel The Meursault Investigation to them.