Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Saadi Yacef’s life was centred in the warren of narrow alleyways that form the Casbah of the Algerian capital.

The Black Panthers and the Irish Republican Army studied the film for its unflinching portrayal of revolutionary resistance. Other militant organizations also made a habit of watching "The Battle of ...

Yacef Saâdi (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. After the ...

Fifty years ago, Saadi Yacef was an Algerian revolutionary fighting France for his country’s independence, planting bombs to kill French occupiers, including civilians, and hiding in the raw sewage of ...

Of all the rebel commanders in Algeria, none has given the French more trouble than handsome Yacef Saadi, the 29-year-old ex-baker who for nearly two years hcs been chief of the FLN (Algerian National ...

ALGIERS -- France is astir with an aging general's disclosures that he and his men routinely tortured and executed people in Algeria during that country's war for independence four decades ago. But ...

A 2006 documentary by Yves Boisset uses uncredited extracts from the film, mixed in with actual news reels, without stating that the film was made nine years after the events which it relates to.

In their frustrating and interminable war in Algeria, where cruelty answers cruelty, and heroism has its ugly necessities, the French have found one continuing source of solace: the dramatic exploits ...

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