Yazid Sabeg
{{short description|French businessman}}
File:DinerannuelduCRAN405022009.jpg, Patrick Lozès, Chloé Mortaud (Miss France 2009) and Yazid Sabeg at the annual diner of CRAN, February 5, 2009]]
Yazid Sabeg (born 8 January 1950) is a French businessman. He is the president of the administrative council of the high-technology firm {{ill|CS Communication and Systems|fr|CS Communication et Systèmes}} and also a member of the {{ill|Institute of International and Strategic Relations|fr|Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques}}.
Early life and education
Career
Sabeg began his career at a subsidiary of Crédit Lyonnais Bank. In 1990, after an experience in Spie Batignolles, he founded a financial firm thanks to which he took control of the Compagnie des Signaux, known as CS Communication et Systèmes.
His success in the business world, coupled with his Maghrebian origins, have given him a lot of media coverage. Member of the {{ill|Montaigne Institute|fr|Institut Montaigne}}, he is close to the UMP.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/feb/13/france.religion |title=No place for French Muslims on party list |first=Jon |last=Henley |newspaper=The Guardian |date=February 13, 2004}} In 2004, he published Discrimination positive, pourquoi la France ne peut y échapper [Positive discrimination, why France cannot escape from it] with his brother Yacine, a journalist.{{cite web |url=http://www.equall.fr/fr/articles/ressources/bibliographie-documents/discrimination-positive/discrimination-positive-pourquoi-france-peut-echapper.html |title=Discrimination positive: Pourquoi la France ne peut y échapper |website=Equall.fr |access-date=2009-03-24 |archive-date=2008-11-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081113125102/http://www.equall.fr/fr/articles/ressources/bibliographie-documents/discrimination-positive/discrimination-positive-pourquoi-france-peut-echapper.html |url-status=dead }}{{cite book |last1=Sabeg |first1=Yazid |last2=Sabeg |first2=Yacine |year=2004 |title=Discrimination positive: pourquoi la France ne peut y échapper |publisher=Calmann-Lévy |isbn=978-2702135112}}
=Work for diversity and equality=
He has been nominated as the "commissaire à l'égalité des chances" in François Fillon government by French president Nicolas Sarkozy on 17 December 2008.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/23/france-race-sarkozy-ethinic-minorities |title=French plan to break taboo on ethnic data causes uproar |first=Angelique |last=Chrisafis |newspaper=The Guardian |date=March 23, 2009}}
Sabeg warned that France risked becoming an apartheid state unless it brings minorities into the mainstream. "Today we are creating a rift that is leading straight to apartheid", said Sabeg when named commissioner for diversity and equal opportunities. "We cannot allow France to become an apartheid state", he said in an interview to several French media as Barack Obama, the first black American to serve as US president, began his first full day in office.{{cite news |url=http://www.peoplestar.co.uk/index.html?news=340 |title=French czar warns of "apartheid" |newspaper=peoplestar.co.uk |access-date=2009-01-21 |archive-date=2012-07-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120726025025/http://www.peoplestar.co.uk/index.html?news=340 |url-status=dead }}
References
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Further reading
- {{cite news |first=John |last=Rossant |url=http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_05/b3918104_mz054.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050129013355/http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_05/b3918104_mz054.htm |archive-date=2005-01-29 |title=Liberte, Egalite, Affirmative Action |newspaper=Bloomberg Businessweek |date=31 January 2005 |ref=none}}
External links
- {{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4405790.stm |title=France's disaffected Muslim businessmen |newspaper=BBC News |date=4 November 2005 |ref=none}}
- {{cite news |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/opinions/article/2004/12/06/l-integration-est-elle-en-panne_389754_3232.html |title=L'intégration est-elle en panne? |newspaper=Le Monde |date=29 November 2005 |lang=fr |ref=none}}
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Category:Algerian emigrants to France
Category:French businesspeople