Boualem Khalfa
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Boualem Khalfa 🇩🇿

بوعلام خلفة (Known as "Boualem Khalfa")
Legendary Director of 'Alger Républicain', Poet, Freedom Fighter
Born Jan 20, 1923 🇩🇿 Algiers, Algeria
Passed Away Jul 06, 2017 Paris / Algiers, Algeria
Lifespan 94 years old
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Historic director of the progressive newspaper 'Alger Républicain', resistance militant who survived brutal colonial torture, and poet who spent his life defending free speech.

Biographical Record

Boualem Khalfa joined the nationalist and anti-colonial press in the 1940s, becoming co-director of 'Alger Républicain' alongside Henri Alleg. Imprisoned and tortured by colonial paratroopers in Barberousse during the Battle of Algiers, he maintained an indomitable moral resilience.

In prison, he co-authored the poetic anthology 'La Voix des poètes de la liberté'. Following independence, Khalfa fought tirelessly for journalistic integrity, progressive republican ideals, and the emancipation of the working classes, living to age 94 as a revered dean of Algerian journalism.

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Final Resting Place

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El Kettar Cemetery
Algiers, Algeria
GPS: 36.7872, 3.0506
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