(1898-05-16)May 16, 1898 Tlemcen, French Algeria (present-day Algeria)
Died
June 3, 1974(1974-06-03) (aged 76) Paris, France
Resting place
Tlemcen
Political party
Étoile nord-africaine
Parti du peuple algérien
Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties
Mouvement National Algérien
Spouse
Émilie Busquant
Children
Ali Messali Hadj (1930–2008), Djanina Messali-Benkelfat (1938–)
Occupation
Politician
Ahmed Ben Messali Hadj (May 16, 1898 – June 3, 1974; commonly known as Messali Hadj, Arabic: مصالي الحاج) was an Algerian nationalist politician dedicated to the independence of his homeland from French colonial rule. He is often called the "father" of Algerian nationalism.[2]
He co-founded the Étoile nord-africaine, and founded the Parti du peuple algérien and the Mouvement pour le triomphe des libertés démocratiques before dissociating himself from the armed struggle for Independence in 1954. He also founded the Mouvement national algérien to counteract the ongoing efforts of the Front de libération nationale.
^Devés-Valdés, Eduardo (2016), "Networks of Peripheral Intellectuals from 1920 to 1940: An Attempt to Map Networks and Construct a Theoretical Approach", in Keim, Wiebke; Çelik, Ercüment; Wöhrer, Veronika (eds.), Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences: Made in Circulation, Routledge, p. 123, ISBN 978-1317127697
^Malley, Robert (1996), The Call From Algeria: Third Worldism, Revolution, and the Turn to Islam, University of California Press, p. 6, ISBN 0520917022
Ahmed Ben MessaliHadj (May 16, 1898 – June 3, 1974; commonly known as MessaliHadj, Arabic: مصالي الحاج) was an Algerian nationalist politician dedicated...
الحركة الوطنية الجزائرية) was a political party and movement founded by MessaliHadj in 1954 to counteract the efforts of the National Liberation Front (FLN)...
for independence the party provided material and moral support. Ahmed MessaliHadj, the Star's secretary general, enunciated the groups demands in 1927...
October 1946 to replace the outlawed Parti du Peuple Algerien (PPA). MessaliHadj remained as its president. The MTLD was created on the same platform...
the Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties (MTLD), led by MessaliHadj, have taken part in the parade, despite their differences with the French...
The North African Star (ENA) Association was preserved in 1926, with MessaliHadj as its chairman, and one of its members was the grandson of the Emir...
he founded the Étoile Nord-Africaine ("North African Star"), to which MessaliHadj, also a member of the Communist Party and of its affiliated trade union...
have achieved between Jews and Muslims is an equality in degradation — MessaliHadj, In addition to that The Economic Programming Law of July 22, 1941 with...
France organized the first party promoting independence in the 1920s. MessaliHadj, Imache Amar, Si Djilani, and Belkacem Radjef rapidly built a strong...
(MTLD), all of them headed by MessaliHadj. He was jailed by France 1945–46. After becoming part of the internal anti-Hadj opposition in the PPA-MTLD, he...
Chataigneau, took advantage of his absence to exile anti-imperialist leader MessaliHadj and arrest the leaders of his Algerian People's Party (PPA). On the day...
fascism. During this time, the PCA also faced increasing competition from MessaliHadj's Algerian People's Party (PPA), which it saw as competing for a similar...
in France organized the first party promoting Algerians independence. MessaliHadj, Imache Amar, Si Djilani Mohammed, and Belkacem Radjef rapidly built...
nationalist party was still led by MessaliHadj, who initially asked for an election boycott. However, after MessaliHadj was released from prison in 1946...
and anti colonial ideals within the Algerian community. In June 1926, MessaliHadj founded the North African Star in Paris. These militants criticized the...
almost thirty books, the most well known of which include a biography of MessaliHadj (reprinted by Hachette-Poche, 2004); a Biographical Dictionary of Algerian...
designed flag, Émilie Busquant, wife of the Algerian nationalist leader MessaliHadj, is generally credited as having sewed the first version of the Algerian...
on June 26, but was rejected by the governor general. He, along with MessaliHadj form the Amis du Manifeste et de la Liberté, and called for an autonomous...
all direction, today against the Jews, and always against the Arabs." MessaliHadj, founder of the Algerian People's Party, wrote: "[This] cannot be considered...
of the PPA-MTLD paramilitary organization founded in February 1947 by MessaliHadj, the Organisation spéciale, at the head of 22 members of the resistance...
to inaugurate the newly built mosque. On the eve of the inauguration, MessaliHadj held the first meeting of the Etoile nord-africaine (North African Star)...
democratic independence through peaceful means was illusory. Together with MessaliHadj and his party, he helped to found the Organisation Spéciale (OS), a paramilitary...
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