Pierre Louis Reymond is a French academic and media researcher specialising in French and international affairs. He was born in 1974 in the Belgian city of Ghent. He writes a weekly article in the Pan Arab "Al Quds Al Arabi" newspaper.
Reymond achieved the lead position in the prestigious and selective French Agregation d’Arabe examination, a highly competitive examination for the public education system in France. He went on to become member of the Agregation d’Arabe Examination Committee in 2004 for six years and is now back to the committee since 2015. In 2003 he completed a PhD in ancient Arab civilisation.
Reymond is the author of academic studies in ancient Arab literature, amongst which is his analysis of Abou Hayyan Al Tawhidi's "Kitab Al Imtaa Wa-l-Muaanasah", an ancient book he became interested in studying in depth after reading about Morocco's late King HM Hassan II becoming so fascinated with it and casually reading from it.
On modern Arab literature, Reymond published an analysis, in French, of Taha Hussein's "Hadeetho Al-Arbiaa", a thorough study of pre-Islamic poetry.
Reymond also compiled a study in linguistics on the subject of tenses in both classical and colloquial Arabic.
In the media
Reymond has a vast and rich record of contributions in children and youth programmes with the Moroccan radio (SNRT) over the period he spent, with his family, in Morocco for most of his childhood and part of his teenage years (from the age of 7 to the age of 14); the descendant of a family of purely French origin, Reymond learnt Arabic in Morocco and his command of the language enabled him to take part regularly in BBC and Aljazeera programs as a geopolitical contributor.
In 2005, he launched "Couleurs du Sud" ("Colours of the South"), the first Arabic radio programme by the media NGO institution, Radio Prun, on the geo-political-cultural and artistic reality within the Mediterranean basin and the South, with contributions from a network of prominent French journalists, specialising in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern affairs, such as the French Algerian author Slimane Zeghidour and the French Algerian journalist Faïza Ghozali, in addition to some of members of the French weekly Jeune Afrique's editing team. In this programme he interviewed several Western and African artists who spoke their views on the Mediterranean Region and Africa such as the French singer Hugues Aufray, the Senegalese singer Ismaël Lô, to whom he spoke from Dakar in the first ever interview with an African celebrity in French NGO media in the French city of Nantes.
Reymond currently teaches Arabic current affairs and language within the preparatory branches of high schools in France. He also writes Arabic poetry and prose.