Slimane Zeghidour

Slimane Zeghidour (Arabic: سليمان زغيدور) is a journalist. He was born in the زيامة منصورية (جيجل ) region of Algeria and moved to France in 1974, where he has been living since. He is currently Chief Editor of TV5 Monde (French: TV5 MONDE). His career includes leading researcher at the French Institute of International and Strategic Research and teaching geopolitics of religions at the Universities of Poitiers and Menton.

Zeghidour began his professional career as a reporter for numerous international newspapers. He conducted many major investigations for 25 years on Latin America, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Russia, as well as specializing in the reality and life of Latino Americans of Arab origin.

Slimane Zeghidour believes that the far-right parties in Europe play with identity and Christian values, and accuse Islam of being their enemy, who threatens their identity. In his definition, Suleiman believes that identity is an ideological concept rather than a reality, and all the answers to what identity is will be ideological, not real. At the same time, he advises to not confuse the concept of identity with heritage. According to Suleiman, identity changes and cannot be fixed; there is no single identity, and it cannot be determined only through religion, culture, or language, because everything creates identity.