Messali hadj biography

Algerian politician (1898-1974)

Ahmed Ben Messali Hadj (May 16, 1898 – June 3, 1974; commonly known as Messali Hadj, Arabic: مصالي الحاج) was an Algerian nationalist politician dedicated to the independence of his homeland from French colonial rule.

He is often called the "father" of Algerian nationalism.^[2]

He co-founded the Étoile nord-africaine, and founded the Parti du peuple algérien and the Mouvement pour le triomphe des libertés démocratiques before dissociating himself from the armed struggle for Independence in 1954.

Ahmed Ben Messali Hadj was an Algerian nationalist politician dedicated to the independence of his homeland from French colonial rule.

Ahmed Ben Messali Hadj was an Algerian nationalist politician dedicated to the independence of his homeland from French colonial rule.

Ahmed Messali Hadj was a revolutionary Algerian nationalist leader.

Ahmed Ben Messali Hadj was an Algerian nationalist politician dedicated to the independence of his homeland from French colonial rule.

Ahmed Ben Messali Hadj (), is known as the “father” of Algerian nationalism, one of whose foremost biographies is Benjamin Stora's Messali Hadj.

Messali Hadj was born on March 16, , in the western Algerian city of Tlemcen.

He also founded the Mouvement national algérien to counteract the ongoing efforts of the Front de libération nationale.

Early life

Ahmed Ben Messali Hadj was born in Tlemcen in 1898. His father Hadj Ahmed Messali was of Turkish origin^[3][4][5][6] and his mother Ftéma Sari Ali Hadj-Eddine belonged to a family of seven daughters, raised in Muslim traditions by their father, a q