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.

The Black Panthers and the Irish Republican Army studied the film for its unflinching portrayal of revolutionary resistance. Other militant organizations also made a habit of watching "The Battle of ...

correction An earlier version of this article incorrectly described Northern Ireland as a British territory. It is a nation-state of the United Kingdom. The article has been corrected. Saadi Yacef was ...

Originally released as a motion picture in 1966. Based on: Souvenirs de la Bataille d'Alger / Saadi Yacef. Accompanying booklet includes an essay by film scholar Peter Matthews; a reprinted interview ...

It’s been almost 50 years since Saadi Yacef, revolutionary hero of the Algerian war of independence, leapt across the terraces of the casbah in Algiers, fleeing from French forces. (Later, he’d play a ...

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 ...

Saadi Yacef: First of all [before I answer the question] let me say that during this fight for independence, I was arrested and betrayed by one of my lieutenants, which also happens to very important ...

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 ...

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 ...