Editing Lounès Matoub (section)

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{{Short description|Algerian musician (1956–1998)}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name              = Lounès Matoub
| background        = solo_singer
| image             = Lounès Matoub (ANP).jpg
| image_size        = 
| alt               = 
| caption           = Matoub during his military service from 1975 to 1977
| native_name       = معطوب الوناس
| birth_name        = Lounès Matoub
| birth_date        = {{birth date|1956|01|24|df=y}}
| birth_place       = [[Beni Douala|Aït Douala]],  [[French Algeria]]
| origin            = 
| death_date        = {{death date and age|1998|06|25|1956|01|24|df=y}}
| death_place       = [[Béni-Aïssi, Tizi Ouzou Province|Aït Aïssi]], 
 Algeria
| genre             = [[Chaabi (Algeria)|Chaabi]]
| occupation        = Singer, songwriter, musician, poet, political activist
| instrument        = [[Algerian mandole]], [[guitar]]
| years_active      = 1978–1998
| label             = 
| associated_acts   = 
| website           = 
| image_upright     = 
}}

'''Lounès Matoub''' ({{Langx|ar|معطوب الوناس}}; 24 January 1956 &ndash; 25 June 1998) was an Algerian [[Kabyle people|Kabylian]] singer, poet, and thinker who sparked an intellectual revolution, and [[mandole]] player who was an advocate of the [[Berber people|Berber]] cause, human rights, and [[secularism]] in Algeria throughout his life.

Matoub is despised by most Algerian Arabs for his [[secular]], [[atheist]] politics, his militant advocacy of Berber rights and blasphemous rock songs,<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bullivant |first1=Stephen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=93VoAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA722 |title=The Oxford Handbook of Atheism |last2=Ruse |first2=Michael |author-link2=Michael Ruse |date=2013 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=9780191667398 |location=Oxford |page=722 |accessdate=11 December 2017}}</ref> making him unpopular among both warring parties during the [[Algerian Civil War]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Messaoudi |first=Khalida |author-link=Khalida Toumi |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Unbowed/Q8Ty2UdljAcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=lounes%20matoub%20despised&pg=PA104&printsec=frontcover |title=Unbowed: An Algerian Woman Confronts Islamic Fundamentalism |last2=Schemla |first2=Elisabeth |date=1998 |publisher=[[University of Pennsylvania Press]] |isbn=978-0-8122-1657-8 |pages=104 |language=en}}</ref> His assassination, claimed by the [[Armed Islamic Group]] (GIA), in unclear circumstances, provoked violent riots in Kabylia.