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In May 1947 he joined the Communist party and gave a lecture in the ' Salle des Sociétés savantes ' on emir Abd al-Qadir.

During a second visit to France the following year he published ' Nedjma ou le Poème du Couteau ' (' a hint of what was to follow ') in the revue ' Le Mercure de France '.

He was a journalist at the daily ' Alger républicain ' between 1949 and 1951, his first great reportages coming from Saudi Arabia and Sudan ( Khartoum ).

After returning to Algeria, he published ( under the pseudonym Said Lamri ) an article denouncing