Salima Tenfiche holds a doctorate in cinema history and aesthetics from the University of Paris, and degrees in political science from the IEP in Lille and in modern literature from the Sorbonne Paris 4. She is a research associate at the Université Paris Cité, specializing in contemporary Algerian cinema. Under the supervision of Jacqueline Nacache, her thesis is entitled “Glorifying the dead or consecrating the living. Une histoire et esthétique et politique du cinéma algérien sous l’ère Bouteflika (2003-2019)”, a manuscript which is currently being published by Classiques Garnier, in the Recherches cinématographiques collection. For the past seven years, she has been teaching cinema history, theory, film analysis and aesthetics at university. After teaching for many years at the Université Paris Cité, she is now an ATER at the Université de Lorraine. She has published several research articles and chapters in collective works on contemporary Algerian cinema. She is also the author of the survey-essay Beurettes, un fantasme français (co-written with Sarah Diffalah), published by Seuil in April 2021, and film critic for Mediapart’s weekly cultural program L’esprit critique since its creation in September 2021.