"I was never drawn to management. Since there aren’t enough executives, researchers in our countries are called on to …"

"When there are only five or six prehistorians for all of Algeria, for example, there is everything to do at once."

"The Park’s headquarters had just been moved to Djanet, and the officials who had been running the Park did not want t…"

"That’s how I accepted to be the Park’s director, a position that was far from easy."

"life was very difficult. We worked under extremely harsh conditions in a territory the size of a country."

"Without resources, no budget, no vehicles."

"Everything had to be done. As a result, the task and responsibility were enormous."

"My greatest joy was being out in the field all the time."

"From a manager’s perspective, because when you are responsible for a territory of 114,000 km², you have to be everywh…"

"I was first deputy director, then director. But in fact, that’s not at all what I wanted to do."