Mohamed Harbi

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Mohamed Harbi (born June 16, 1933) is an Algerian historian who was a member of the

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Mohamed Harbi was born in 1933 into a wealthy family in El Harrouch, Algeria. At the age of 15, he joined the Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties. According to his memoirs, Harbi lived underground in France and gathered support for the Algerian independence. From 1954 to 1962 he was in a prominent position in the FLN.

After the Algerian War of Independence, he became an advisor to the new president,

. He believed, like many Marxists in his generation, that popular militias were needed to revolutionise society as well as resist the impending coup. However, his own insistence on Marxist dogma helped fuel popular as well as political opposition toward him, which culminated in the very coup he had feared.

In June 1965

with a false Turkish passport and from there moved to Paris.

In France, Harbi began to teach political science in the University of Paris.

During his house arrest, Harbi had begun to write the history of the independence movement and in 1975 published a book The history of FLN. His inside view of the movement was not one the FLN cherished and he began to receive death threats from three sides; Algerian secret police, Algerian Islamic militants and French ultra-nationalists.

Currently Harbi lives in Paris, retired from the university. The first part of his memoirs was published in 2003.

Books

• La guerre d'Algérie : de la mémoire à l'histoire (2004), with Benjamin Stora^[3]

References

External links

• copy of a New York Times article "An Arab Gadly With a Memorable Bite"

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