From Wikipedia: Rachid Mimouni (In Arabic:رشيد ميموني) was an Algerian writer, teacher and human rights activist. Mimouni studied science at the University of Algiers before becoming a teacher at the École supérieure du commerce (business school) in Algiers. He was president of the Kateb Yacine foundation and he also held the position of vice-president at Amnesty International. He fled Algeria for France in 1993 to escape the civil war and the assassinations of intellectuals. He died in Paris in 1995 of hepatitis. Mimouni wrote novels describing Algerian society in a realist style.
"Je pense à la cruelle insensibilité de la nature, à la fatale indifférence du monde. S'il est quelque part. dans la froide immensité sidérale qui nous enveloppe. un observateur omniscient. ou mortel ou divin. il doit bien rire devant la naïveté de nos projets. l'absurdité de notre destin. la vanité de nos efforts obstinés."