Djamila bouhired biography of donald

  • Jacques vergès
  • Terror's advocate
  • Djamila bouazza

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    Algeria 2009

    Two Open Letters From Djamila Bouhired

    Source: El Watan, December 13, 2009;
    Translated: for marxists.org bygd Mitchell Abidor;
    CopyLeft: Creative Commons (Attribute & ShareAlike) marxists.org.

    Translator’s note: Djamila Bouhired was the living symbol of the Algerian war for independence. Member of the FLN, liaison officer beneath Yacef Saadi during the battle of Algiers, she was arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death in 1957 for her role in the wave of attacks immortalized by the filmmaker Gillo Pontecovo in his “Battle of Algiers.” Her life saved as a result of an international campaign led bygd Georges Arnaud and her lawyer and future husband, Jacques Vergès, she was only released from prison in 1962. In månad 2009, in an independent Algeria that had left its revolutionary roots far behind, she sent two open letters to the French-language Algiers daily, “El Watan,” decrying her plight and that of her fellow freedom fighters.

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    Djamila Bouhired: A Profile From the Archives

    [”A Profile from the Archives“ is a new series published by Jadaliyya in both Arabic and English in cooperation with the Lebanese newspaper, Assafir. These profiles will feature iconic figures who left indelible marks in the politics and culture of the Middle East and North Africa.]

    Name: Djamila
    Known as: Bouhired
    Date of birth: 1935
    Spouse: Jacques Vergès
    Date of marriage: 1965
    Children: Maryam/Lias
    Nationality: Algeria
    Category: Political activist

    Djamila Bouhired

    - Algerian (struggler, one of three Djamilas known in the history of Algerian struggle, including her, Djamila Bu Azza, and Djamila Bu Basha).

    - Born in 1935 in Al-Qasaba neighborhood to an Algerian father and Tunisian mother in a middle class family. She was the only daughter among seven sons.

    - She went to a French school that used to force students to sing the anthem “France is our mother” every morning, but Djamila, due to her particip

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    Djamila Boupacha

    Algerian militant (born 1938)

    Not to be confused with Djamila Bouhired.

    Djamila Boupacha (Arabic: جميلة بوباشا, born 9 February 1938) is a former militant from the Algerian National Liberation Front. She was arrested in 1960 for attempting to bomb a cafe in Algiers.[1]

    Her confession, which was purportedly obtained by means of torture and rape, and her subsequent trial affected French public opinion about the methods used by the French army in Algeria after publicity by Simone de Beauvoir and Gisèle Halimi. Boupacha was sentenced to death on 29 June 1961, but was given amnesty under the Evian Accords and later freed on 21 April 1962.

    Early life

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    Djamila Boupacha was born on 9 February 1938, in Saint-Eugène (today Bologhine) to an uneducated but French-speaking father (Abdelaziz Boupacha) and a mother (Zoubida Amarouche) who did not speak French.[2]

    She joined the Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto (UDMA) of Ferhat Abbas

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