1This collection is the result of a close collaboration between the Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur les Emplois et les Professionnalisations (CEREP - University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France) and the research laboratory Langue, Littérature and Civilisation / Histoire en Afrique (LLCHA - University of Oran 2 Mohamed Ben Ahmed, Algeria) as part of a Hubert Curien Tassili Research Program (PHC) entitled "Images, Realities and Fictions of North-South Relations", in partnership with the Centre de recherche sur les médiations (CREM - University of Lorraine) and the research laboratory Sociétés, Acteurs, Gouvernements, en Europe (SAGE - University of Strasbourg). Our thanks go, in the first place, to the various actors who took part in the implementation of the PHC, especially the Algerian and French Steering Committees of the PHC and Campus France.

2Nothing would have been possible without the help of the scientific committees and the organizing committees of the study day "Images, realities and fictions of North-South relations" (IUT of Troyes, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, March 23, 2017) and the international symposium "The Reception of Images : Realities and Fictions of North-South Relations" (Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Oran 2 - Mohamed Ben Ahmed, May 8 & 9, 2018) : Seddik AMROUN, Rector of the University of Oran 2, Belkacem BELMEKKI, Professor of English Studies-Civilization, LLCHA laboratory, University of Oran 2 ; Patricia CAILLÉ, Senior Lecturer in English and Anglo-Saxon Languages ​​and Literatures, CREM, University of Lorraine ; Marianne CAILLOUX, Associate Professor in Information and Communication Sciences, CÉREP, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne ; Françoise F. LAOT, Professor of Sociology, CÉREP, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne ; Dounia Leila MIMOUNI-MESLEM, Professor of Sciences of Literary Texts, LLCHA Laboratory, University of Oran 2 ; Abdelkader SAYAD, Senior Lecturer in Language Science, LLCHA Laboratory, University of Oran 2.

3Last but not least, our thanks also go to the doctoral students, Vivien Soldé and Hanane Zatout, who participated in the organization of these scientific events.