Jules Dove Attia (Arabic: جول دوف عطية) better known as Dove Attia (born in Tunisia on 8 June 1957), is a musical producer and television personality.
Beginnings
Dove Attia is a French citizen born to a Tunisian father who was an electrician and a French mother. At 15 he studied guitar and tried his hand at composition and singing, particularly rock music. Dreaming of a music career, he formed his own school band with some of his schoolmates. After getting his baccalaureate, he settled in Paris where he studied at Lycée Chaptal and he became an intern at Lycée Saint-Louis. He also continued his studies at l'École polytechnique and received a Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) at Université Paris-Dauphine.[1] After graduation, he taught mathematics, physics and chemistry at Lycée Chaptal where he had studied. And starting 1990, he prepared students at the lycée for placement in various higher education institutions.[1]
Career
In the early 1990s he worked as an author and a journalist preparing in collaboration with Léon Zitrone a collection of documentary videos about the most important events of the 20th century. In 1996, he also co-wrote with Albert Cohen a biographical book La légende du 100m: Un siècle pour une seconde a biography of runner Carl Lewis. He held high administrative positions as General Director of the main French television station TF1's international operations, and later as president of Tekelec Europe, provider of electronic products.
Dove Attia then moved on to cowrite with Lambert Vincent the scenario for the Didier Delaître feature television film Passion assasine. The film was produced by "7 Films" (a production company run by Elie Chouraqui and Alain Cohen). Passion assasine was broadcast on M6 television station in 2000.
