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.

At the center of the Algerian effort to throw off French rule, he re-created that role in Gillo Pontecorvo’s searing 1966 movie, based on a book by Mr. Yacef. By Neil Genzlinger Saadi Yacef, a ...

Saadi Yacef, who has died aged 93, was an Algerian revolutionary whose memoir of the anti-colonial struggle against the French was made into one of the greatest and most influential films of the 20th ...

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 ...

As the Cannes Film Festival prepares to screen a new print of Gillo Pontecorvo’s controversial “The Battle of Algiers,” Thunder Road Pictures pro-ducer Basil Iwanyk has inked a deal to remake the film ...

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 ...

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