Jules Dove Attia better known as Dove Attia (born in Tunisia on 8 June 1957) is an musical producer television personality.

Beginnings

Dove Attia is a French citizen born to a Tunisian father and a French mother. At 15 he studied guitar and tried his had in composition and singing, particularly rock music and dreaming on a music career and formed his own school band with some of his schoolmates. After getting his baccalaureate, he established in Paris where he studied at Lycée Chaptal and mathematics at Lycée Saint-Louis. continuing to l'École polytechnique and finally a Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) at Université Paris-Dauphine.

Career

He taught mathematics and physics at Lycée Chaptal where he had studied. And starting 1990, he prepared students for placement in various higher education institutions. In the 1990s, he worked as an author and a journalist preparing in collaboration with Léon Zitrone a collection of videos about the most important events of the 20th century. In 1996, he co-wrote with Aert Cohen the book La légende du 100m: Un siècle pour une seconde a biography of runner Carl Lewis.

He also held high administratve 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 write scenarios for the long feature television film Passion assasine in collaboration with Lambert Vincent produced by 7 Films (run by Elie Chouraqui and Alain Cohen) and broadcast on M6 television station in 2000.

He then moved to the production of a number of high profile musicals. In 2000, he produced Les 10 Commandements in collaboration with friend and associate Albert Cohen and Elie Chouraqui and producer of the musical Autant en emporte le vent (2003), Les Hors-la-Loi (2005), Le Roi Soleil (2005) and Mozart, l'opéra rock' (2009) and 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille (2012)

Starting 2003, he was part of the jury of television reality series À la Recherche de la Nouvelle Star on M6 with Varda Kakon, Lionel Florence and André Manoukian. he came back for future seasons when Marianne James replaced Varda Kakon and Manu Katché, who replaced Lionel Florence. He quit the program in 2007.