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Saadi Yacef (Arabic: ياسف سعدي, romanized: Yāsaf Saʿadī; 20 January 1928 – 10 September 2021) was an Algerian independence fighter, serving as a leader of the National Liberation Front during his country's war of independence.
Sep 21, 2021 · Saadi Yacef, a revolutionary leader who fought French rule in Algeria in the 1950s and then set in motion — and acted in — “The Battle of Algiers,” Gillo Pontecorvo’s acclaimed 1966 film about...
Sep 15, 2021 · Saadi Yacef was an Algerian guerrilla leader who fought for and eventually helped win the North African nation’s independence from colonial France in 1962 after a bloody eight-year war...
Oct 5, 2021 · Former Algerian independence fighter Saadi Yacef wrote these words for Larbi Ben M’hidi’s character in Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 film The Battle of Algiers. Like Ben M’Hidi, Yacef had been a key leader of the National Liberation Front (FLN) in real life.
Sep 24, 2021 · Saadi Yacef’s life was centred in the warren of narrow alleyways that form the Casbah of the Algerian capital. It was here that he led a guerrilla uprising against colonial France, a key...
Saadi Yacef, a revolutionary leader who fought French rule in Algeria in the 1950s and then set in motion — and acted in — “The Battle of Algiers,” Gillo Pontecorvo’s acclaimed 1966 film about the long anti-colonialism struggle, died Sept. 10 in Algiers, the capital. He was 93.
Sep 17, 2021 · The famed Algerian resistance fighter Saadi Yacef, who fought for his country’s independence from French colonialism, died on 10 September; he was 93.
