Ahmed Tewfik El Madani
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Ahmed Tewfik El Madani 🇹🇳

أحمد توفيق المدني (Known as "Tewfik El Madani")
Historian, Statesman, Diplomat, Minister of Cultural Affairs in the GPRA
Born Nov 01, 1898 🇹🇳 Tunis, Tunisia
Passed Away Oct 18, 1983 Algiers, Algeria
Lifespan 84 years old
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"The ink of scholars and the blood of martyrs flowed in the same sacred stream to liberate our land."

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Eminent Algerian nationalist historian, founding member of the Association of Ulema, and Minister of Cultural Affairs in the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (GPRA).

Biographical Record

Born to an Algerian refugee family in Tunis, Ahmed Tewfik El Madani engaged in anti-colonial activism in the Destour Party before being exiled to Algiers in 1925. He joined forces with Ben Badis to build schools and cultural centers across the Algerian territory.

During the War of National Liberation, he joined the National Liberation Front (FLN) in Cairo and was appointed Minister of Cultural Affairs in the GPRA in 1958, leading diplomatic missions across the Arab world and drafting foundational texts on Algerian maritime and political history including Kitab al-Jazair.

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El Kettar Cemetery
Algiers, Algeria
GPS: 36.7867, 3.0489
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