Moufdi Zakaria
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Moufdi Zakaria 🇩🇿

مفدي زكرياء (زكرياء بن سليمان) (Known as "Poet of the Revolution")
Poet Laureate of the Algerian Revolution, Author of Qassaman, Nationalist Leader
Born Apr 12, 1908 🇩🇿 Beni Isguen (Ghardaïa), Algeria
Passed Away Aug 17, 1977 Tunis, Tunisia
Lifespan 69 years old
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"We swear by the lightning that burns, by the pure blood that flows, that we have resolved Algeria shall live free."

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Immortal Poet of the Algerian Revolution whose blazing neoclassical verses written on prison walls in Barberousse, including the national anthem Qassaman and The Holy March, defined national liberation.

Biographical Record

Born in the M'zab valley oasis of Beni Isguen, Moufdi Zakaria studied in Tunis at the Zitouna and Khaldounia, co-founding the North African Student Association. Imprisoned repeatedly by French colonial authorities in Barberousse (Serkadji), he composed the lyrics of the Algerian national anthem Qassaman with his own blood on his cell walls in 1955.

His poetic collections, notably Al-Lahab al-Muqaddas (The Sacred Flame) and Ilyadhat al-Jaza'ir (The Algerian Iliad of 1,000 verses), stand as the supreme classical poetic monuments of the anti-colonial struggle in the Arab world.

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Beni Isguen Ancestral Cemetery
Beni Isguen (Ghardaïa), Algeria
GPS: 32.4767, 3.6933
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