Lydia Haddag is pursuing a PhD in art history at Panthéon-Sorbonne University, where she is part of the InVisu laboratory (Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique and L'Institut national d'histoire de l'art). Her research explores modern art in North Africa, tracing its evolution from colonial to postcolonial times. She has earned master's degrees in cultural policy and management from Sciences Po Paris and arts, literatures, languages from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. Lydia has worked in museums and cultural organizations in Algeria, France and the US as well as UNESCO. Her first book, La génération du Môle d’Alger (Casbah Editions, 2022), explores a mid-20th century art collective in Algiers, centered around Algerian-born French painter Sauveur Galliéro (1914-1963) and the poet Jean Sénac (1926-1973), whose art explores a Mediterranean Algerianness free of colonial identity.