Habib Ayyoub, real name Abdelaziz Benmahdjoub, born October 15, 1947 in Tagdemt (Algeria), is an Algerian journalist, author and writer, living in Dellys.

The choice of the pseudonym Habib Ayyoub was influenced by the writer's editors :

"It is on the advice of my editors, Selma and Sofiane, that I took this pseudonym which is easier to remember and sounds better, but it is I who chose it. Ayyoub is the name of the most miserable and patient prophet, Job in French; Habib, in Arabic, is the friend. The friend of the poor, that's what I want to be. »
After studying sociology, then cinema at the Institut national supérieur des arts du spectacle de Bruxelles, he was a press correspondent for the daily newspaper Le Jeune Indépendant and then an economic journalist for the newspaper Liberté.

He then directed a few short films before publishing his first texts Le Désert et après, and Le Gardien published by Barzakh in 2002. In the form of a philosophical tale, Le Gardien tells the story of a soldier who lives in the ksar of southern Algeria.