Moufdi Zakaria

Zakri ben Slimane, known as Moufdi Zakaria, was born on 12 June 1908 in Beni Isguen, one of the seven ksour of the M'zab, and owed his nickname to a fellow student. After Quranic school, he studied in Tunis, at the El Attarine madrasa and then at the Khaldounia, and graduated from the Zitouna. A militant from the 1930s, arrested three times between 1937 and 1946, he wrote the anthem of the Algerian People's Party, then, imprisoned at Barberousse during the war, the verses the FLN would adopt as its anthem. After escaping, he reached Morocco and Tunisia, where he died on 17 August 1977; he is buried in the M'zab.

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• Poetryإلياذة الجزائرMoufdi Zakaria · 1972not translated into EnglishLiterature