55 Notable alumni of
University of Algiers 1
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The University of Algiers 1 is 742nd in the world, 16th in Africa, and 1st in Algeria by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 55 notable alumni from the University of Algiers 1 sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Albert Camus
- Enrolled in the University of Algiers 1
- 1935-1936 studied philosophy
- Occupations
- novelistwriterphilosopherplaywrightpoet
- Biography
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Albert Camus was a French philosopher, novelist, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history, and the first laureate in literature born in Africa. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall and The Rebel.
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Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa
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- diplomatrevolutionarypolitician
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika was an Algerian politician and diplomat who served as the seventh president of Algeria from 1999 to his resignation in 2019.
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Edwy Plenel
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- journalistopinion journalistnon-fiction writerpublisher
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Hervé Edwy Plenel is a French political journalist.
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Hassiba Ben Bouali
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- political activistrevolutionaryfreedom fighter
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Hassiba Ben Bouali was an Algerian militant and revolutionary figure of the Algerian War.
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Ahlam Mosteghanemi
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- novelistpoetwriter
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Ahlam Mosteghanemi is an Algerian poet and writer. She was the first Algerian woman to write poetry and fiction in Arabic. She has published four novels and six anthologies, and is best known for her 1993 novel Memory of the Flesh. In 2007 and 2008, she was ranked #96 and #58 respectively as the most influential Arab by the Arabian Business magazine.
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Ferhat Abbas
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- pharmacistpolitician
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Ferhat Abbas was an Algerian politician who acted in a provisional capacity as the then yet-to-become independent country's Prime Minister from 1958 to 1961, as well as the first President of the National Assembly and the first acting Chief of State after independence.
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Zohra Drif
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- writerlawyerresistance fighterpolitician
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Zohra Drif Bitat is a retired Algerian lawyer, moudjahid (a militant of the Algerian War of Independence), and the vice-president of the Council of the Nation, the upper house of the Algerian Parliament. Drif was born in Tissemselt, Algeria, part of the province of Tiaret, where her grandfather was an imam and her father served as a lawyer and judge in Tiaret. She is best known for her activities on behalf of the National Liberation Front (FLN) during the Algerian War of Independence.
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Maurice Audin
- Enrolled in the University of Algiers 1
- Studied in 1951-1953
- Occupations
- mathematicianpolitical activist
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Maurice Audin was a renowned French mathematics assistant at the University of Algiers, a member of the Algerian Communist Party and an activist in the anticolonialist cause, who died under torture by the French state during the Battle of Algiers.
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Khadija Benguenna
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- presenterwriterjournalist
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Khadija Benguenna is an Algerian professional journalist and TV presenter works at Al Jazeera channel. Born in Algeria in 1965, Khadija Benguenna has been ranked among the Arab world’s most influential personalities by Forbes Magazine, CNN and Arabian Business.
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Lakhdar Brahimi
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- diplomatpolitician
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Lakhdar Brahimi is an Algerian United Nations diplomat who served as the United Nations and Arab League Special Envoy to Syria until 14 May 2014. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria from 1991 to 1993. He served as chairman of the United Nations Panel on United Nations Peace Operations in 2000. Its highly influential report "Report of the Panel on United Nations Peacekeeping" is known as "The Brahimi Report".
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Ferhat Mehenni
- Occupations
- singerpolitician
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Ferhat Mehenni is a separatist Algerian politician in exile, writer, protest singer, musician and songwriter, founder and first President of the Movement for the Self-Determination of Kabylia. He has been President of the Kabyle Provisional Government since June 1, 2010.
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Mohammed Arkoun
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- university teacherwriterhistorianphilosopherIslamicist
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Mohammed Arkoun was an Algerian scholar and thinker. He was considered to have been one of the most influential secular scholars in Islamic studies contributing to contemporary intellectual Islamic reform. In a career of more than 30 years, he had been a critic of the tensions embedded in his field of study, advocating Islamic modernism, secularism, and humanism. During his academic career, he wrote his numerous books mostly in French, and occasionally in English and Arabic.
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Albert Memmi
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- writeressayist
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Albert Memmi was a French-Tunisian writer and essayist of Tunisian Jewish origins. A prominent intellectual, his nonfiction books and novels explored his complex identity as an anti-imperialist, deeply related to his ardent Zionism.
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Elias Zerhouni
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- physicianradiologist
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Elias Zerhouni is an Algerian-born American radiologist and biomedical engineer who has held leadership roles in academia, government, and the pharmaceutical industry.
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Jean Daniel
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- autobiographernovelistopinion journalistjournalistwar correspondent
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Jean Daniel Bensaid was a French journalist and author. He was the founder and executive editor of Le Nouvel Observateur weekly now known as L'Obs.
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Benyoucef Benkhedda
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- pharmacistpolitician
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Benyoucef Benkhedda was an Algerian politician. He headed the third GPRA exile government of the National Liberation Front (FLN), acting as a leader during the Algerian War (1954–62). At the end of the war, he was briefly the de jure leader of the country, however he was quickly sidelined by more conservative figures.
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Abd al-Aziz Jarad
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- university teacherpolitical scientistpolitician
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Abdelaziz Djerad is an Algerian politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Algeria from 28 December 2019 to 30 June 2021. In September 2021, he was appointed ambassador to Sweden.
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Nadir al-Arbawi
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- diplomathandball playerpolitician
- Biography
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Nadir Larbaoui is an Algerian politician, lawyer and diplomat, who served as the Prime Minister of Algeria from 2023 to 2025.
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Rachid Boudjedra
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- screenwriterwriterjournalistfilm screenwriterpoet
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Rachid Boudjedra is an Algerian poet, novelist, playwright and critic. Boudjedra wrote in French from 1965 to 1981, at which point he switched to writing in Arabic, often translating his own works back and forth between the two languages. Boudjedra returned to writing in French in 1992 and has continued to write in that language ever since. Educated in Constantine and in Tunis (at the Collège Sadiki), Boudjedra later fought for the FLN during the Algerian War of Independence. He received his degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne, where he wrote a thesis on Céline. Upon receiving his degree, he returned to Algeria to teach, but was sentenced to two years in prison for his criticisms of the government and was exiled to Blida. He lived in France from 1969 till 1972, and then in Rabat, Morocco until 1975.
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Hichem Aboud
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- journalistwriter
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Hichem Aboud is an Algerian journalist and political activist. Aboud was the founder and redactor-in-chief of the "Mon Journal" (Arabic: جريدتي, romanized: jarīdatī, lit. 'My Journal') newspaper. The newspaper was published in both French and Arabic. In 2013, the journal was banned in Algeria after reporting on Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika's health. As of 2023, Aboud has over 613,000 subscribers on YouTube.
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Dioncounda Traoré
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- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Dioncounda Traoré is a Malian politician who was President of Mali in an interim capacity from April 2012 to September 2013. Previously he was President of the National Assembly of Mali from 2007 to 2012, and he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 1997. He was President of the Alliance for Democracy in Mali-African Party for Solidarity and Justice (ADEMA-PASJ) beginning in 2000, and he was also President of the Alliance for Democracy and Progress (ADP), an alliance of parties that supported the re-election of President Amadou Toumani Touré in 2007.
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Waciny Laredj
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- writer
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Waciny Laredj is an Algerian novelist, short story writer and academic.
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Muhammad Siddiq ibn Yahia
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- diplomatnationalistspolitician
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Mohammed Seddik Benyahia or Ben Yahia was an Algerian politician and a militant nationalist during the war in Algeria. After independence he was Minister of Information (1967–1971), Higher Education (1971–1977), Finance (1977–1979), and Foreign Affairs (1979–1982).
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Kaouther Adimi
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- novelistshort story writerwriter
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Kaouther Adimi is a writer, graduate in modern literature and human resources management. She works today in Paris, where she has lived since 2009.
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Tahar Djaout
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- writerliterary criticpoetjournalist
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Tahar Djaout was an Algerian journalist, poet, and fiction writer. He was assassinated in 1993 by the Armed Islamic Group.
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Redha Malek
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- diplomatwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Redha Malek was an Algerian politician who served as Prime Minister of Algeria from 21 August 1993 to 11 April 1994. During his short term of office, which came in the early years of the Algerian Civil War, he pursued a hardline anti-Islamist policy and successfully negotiated debt relief with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), following the implementation of an IMF reform plan. He was known for his support of a free market economy.
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Mahfoud Nahnah
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- preacherteacherpolitician
- Biography
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Mahfoud Nahnah was an Algerian politician who served as the leader of the Islamist political party Movement of Society for Peace (commonly referred to as Hams) in Algeria.
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Abderrahmane Taleb
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- artificer
- Biography
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Abderrahmane Taleb, also known by his wartime pseudonym Mohand Akli, born on 5 March 1930 in the Casbah of Algiers, was the artificer of the Autonomous Zone of Algiers during the Battle of Algiers. He was guillotined on 24 April 1958 at the Barberousse Prison (now Serkadji prison) in Algiers.
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Léon Ashkenazi
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- rabbi
- Biography
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Rav Yehuda Leon Ashkenazi, also known as Manitou (June 21, 1922 – October 21, 1996), was a Jewish rabbi and educator. He was a spiritual leader of 20th century French Jewry.
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Abdelmalek Sayad
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- philosopherwritersociologist
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Abdelmalek Sayad, was a sociologist, first as an assistant to Pierre Bourdieu, then as a research director at the French CNRS and at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. He studied migration issues in French social sciences.
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Saïd Sadi
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- psychiatristpolitician
- Biography
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Saïd Sadi is an Algerian politician who was President of the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD) until 2012. He is founder of the first Algerian human rights league.
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Murad Madalsi
- Enrolled in the University of Algiers 1
- In 1968 graduated with master's degree in economics
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Mourad Medelci was an Algerian politician who served in the government of Algeria as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2013. He was President of the Constitutional Council of Algeria from 2013 until his death in 2019.
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Mustapha Bouchachi
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- university teacherlawyerpolitician
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Mostefa Bouchachi is an Algerian lawyer and politician.
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Belaid Abdesselam
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- nationalistspolitician
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Belaid Abdessalam was an Algerian politician, who served as Prime Minister from 1992 to 1993.
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Soheib Bencheikh
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- politician
- Biography
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Soheib Bencheikh is an Islamic religious leader and author and would-be French politician.
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Évariste Lévi-Provençal
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- historianwriteruniversity teacher
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Évariste Lévi-Provençal was a French medievalist, orientalist, Arabist, and historian of Islam.
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Muhammad al-Amin Dabbaghin
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- diplomatpoliticianindependence activist
- Biography
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Dr. Mohamed Lamine Debaghine was an Algerian politician and independence activist.
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Malek Alloula
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- poetliterary criticwriter
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Malek Alloula was an Algerian poet, writer, editor, and literary critic.
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Salima Ghezali
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- writerhuman rights defenderjournalistwomen's rights activist
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Salima Ghezali is an Algerian journalist and writer.
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Sadek Hadjeres
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- physicianpolitical activistuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Sadek Hadjerès was an Algerian politician of the Algerian Communist Party.
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Évelyne Baylet
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- media proprietorteacherpolitician
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Évelyne Baylet was a French company director. She served between 1959 and 1995 as president of the La Dépêche du Midi newspaper group, while pursuing a parallel career as a regional politician.
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Tassadit Yacine
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- anthropologistresearch fellow
- Biography
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Tassadit Yacine-Titouh is an Algerian anthropologist specialising in Berber culture.
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Driss Guiga
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Driss Guiga is a Tunisian lawyer and politician who was Minister of Health, Minister of Education and then Minister of the Interior for four years during the later part of the Habib Bourguiba regime.
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Simone Boisecq
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- sculptor
- Biography
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Simone Boisecq was a French sculptor who worked in Algiers and Paris. Her work has been described as a synthesis between abstraction and figuration.
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Aziz Chouaki
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- writerplaywright
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Aziz Chouaki was born in 1951 in Tizi Rached, Algeria. He died in France, 2019. He was a writer and playwright known for his somewhat daring political and literary views. His literary works include the novel Baya- Algerian Rapsodia which was published in 1988, and the play Oranges, which was published in 1997. In the play, he documented the Algerian history from 1990 to 1997.
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Houda Darwish
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- novelistpoetwriter
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Houda Darwish is an Algerian novelist, poet, writer, and women's rights activist. According to Abdel Madjid Djaber, a Palestinian critic and academician, she is a "charming lady of Algerian literature.".
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Meriem Belmihoub
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- activistlawyerwomen's rights activistpolitician
- Biography
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Meriem Belmihoub-Zerdani was an Algerian independence fighter, lawyer and feminist.
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Salah Farhat
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- politician
- Biography
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Salah Farhat was a Tunisian politician who was a founder of the Constitutional Liberal Party (Destour) after having campaigned in the Young Tunisians Movement.
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Jean Baptiste Paulin Trolard
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- anatomistphysician
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Jean Baptiste Paulin Trolard was a French anatomist from Sedan, Ardennes, known for his work on the anastomotic veins of the cerebral circulation. The "vein of Trolard" (the superior anastomotic vein) was named after him.
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Robert Courrier
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- physicianresearcherprofessor
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Marie Jules Constant Robert Courrier ForMemRS was a French biologist, and doctor. He was a secretary of the French Academy of Sciences from 1948 to 1986. He was the winner of 1963 CNRS Gold medal, the highest scientific research award in France.
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Jeanine Belkhodja
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- physician
- Biography
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Jeanine Nadjia Belkhodja was an Algerian doctor, communist and National Liberation Front (Algeria) activist during the Algerian War. She later became a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Mustapha Pacha hospital in Algiers.
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Sofiane Mimouni
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- diplomat
- Biography
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Sofiane Mimouni has been the Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations since October 2019. Director General for Africa at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from 2015 to 2019. He has also served as Algeria’s Ambassador to Iran from 2009 to 2014, Director‑General of the Asia-Oceania Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2009 and Ambassador to Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam and Vanuatu from 1996 to 2004.
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Fadhila Boumendjel-Chitour
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- university teacherhuman rights defenderphysician
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Fadhila Boumendjel-Chitour is a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Algiers and an Algerian human rights activist. She is the former head of the CHU Bab El Oued (Algiers). Born into a revolutionary family, Bowmanel-Chitour is the daughter of Ahmed Boumendjel and the niece of Ali Boumendjel.
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Imane Taleb
- Years
- 1996-.. (age 30)
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- karateka
- Biography
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Imane Taleb is an Algerian karateka who has represented Algeria in international competitions. She has claimed medals in Islamic Solidarity Games, African Games and in African Karate Championships representing Algeria mainly taking part in the kumite category. On 26 August 2019, she claimed her first African Games medal in the 50 kg kumite category during the 2019 African Games.
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Mourad Benmehidi
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- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Mourad Benmehidi was the Permanent Representative to the United Nations for Algeria. He took office in August 2008. Benmehidi is married with three children.
