Mufdi Zakariah

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Mufdi Zakariah (born June 12, 1908 in Beni Isguen , French North Africa , † August 17, 1977 in Tunis , Tunisia ) was an Algerian author and poet . He put his artistic work in the service of Algerian nationalism and was imprisoned several times. During the Algerian War he was an important propagandist for the FLN .

Life

Mufdi Zakariah was born in the M'zab region in central Algeria . He received a traditional Islamic school education in Arabic in Beni Isguen and Annaba . He completed his higher education at the University of Ez-Zitouna in Tunis . In his artistic work he extolled militant anti-colonialism and Arab-Algerian nationalism, which is why he was imprisoned several times by the French colonial authorities.

Zakariah was politically involved in the MTLD of Messali Hadj . During the Algerian War he joined the FLN and became their poet of the revolution . He wrote numerous agitation pamphlets and popular political poems and songs. In 1955, while in French custody, he wrote the text for today's Algerian national anthem Kassaman in an Arabic and a Berber version.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography of Moufdi Zakaria on the website of President of the Algerian People's Democratic Republic in French; last accessed on December 18, 2017
  2. ↑ Yassin Telali: La littérature algérienne de langue arabe, lieu de résistance à la déculturation colonial in Abderrahmane Bouchène, Jean-Pierre Peyroulou, Ounassa Sari Tengour, Sylvie Thénault: Histoire de l'Algérie à la period Coloniale Paris 2014 - 1962 622
  3. ^ Taha Khalfoune, Gilbert Meynier: Après l'indépendance les relation tumultueuses entre l'Algérie et la France in Abderrahmane Bouchène, Jean-Pierre Peyroulou, Ounassa Sari Tengour, Sylvie Thénault: Histoire de l'Algérie 1830 - 1962. Paris 2014 p. 667
personal data
SURNAME Zakariah, Mufdi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Algerian author and poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Beni Isguen , French North Africa
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1977
Place of death Tunis , Tunisia