Mohammed Harbi

Mohammed Harbi born on June 16 1933 in El Harrouch near Skikda Algeria and died on January 1 2026 in Paris was a former highranking Algerian civil servant historian and academic specializing in the political life and history of Algeria and a former member of the Algerian National Liberation Front FLN Following Houari Boumédiènes coup détat he was imprisoned from 1965 to 1968 placed under house arrest by the Algerian authorities in 1971 and escaped to France in 1973 Drawing on his insider knowledge of the nationalist movement he explored its driving forces and intricacies to develop the historiography of Algerian nationalism