Career
He is well-known because of his articles in First Rate (at Lloyd's) Bayane, Louisiana Vie Économique, Charlie Hebdo and Jeune Afrique. He also presented a radio-program on jazz and classical music (Radio Mediterranee Internationale). In 1996 he published his first novel Les nuits d´Azed and in 1998, Ibn Battouta, Pince des Voyageurs.
Akalay studied economy and political sciences in Paris, worked with the Royal Air Maroc and ran a travel agency in Tangier.
In 1990 he started to write for journals and magazines. In 2006 he published a collection of his chronicles in one book Les Nouvelles de Tanger.
