Mustapha Stambouli

Mustapha Stambouli
Personal details
Born(1920-03-10)10 March 1920
Mascara, French Algeria
Died20 April 1984(1984-04-20) (aged 64)
Mascara, Algeria
Military service
AllegianceFLN
Branch/serviceALN

Mustapha Stambouli (10 March 1920 – 20 April 1984) was an Algerian nationalist leader.

A law student, he was active for the nationalist cause from the late 1930s in the Parti du peuple algérien (PPA), and was jailed several times by the colonial authorities of France. In 1948, he was arrested on the Libyan border, as he tried to join Arab guerrillas in Palestine. He joined the Front de libération nationale (FLN), and served as an officer in its armed wing, the Armée de libération nationale (ALN), during the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62). He eventually became a secretary of state in the Gouvernement provisoire de la republique algérienne (GPRA), an exile government set up by the FLN.[1][2][3] Following independence in 1962, he was elected to the constituent assembly, but played no major political role after that.

There is now a university named after him in his hometown of Mascara, Algeria.

References

  1. ↑ Quandt, William B. (1968). The Algerian Political Elite: 1954-1967. p. 206. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
  2. ↑ Bedjaoui, Mohammed (1961). Law and the Algerian Revolution. International Association of Democratic Lawyers. p. 74. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
  3. ↑ Jackson, Henry F. (12 May 1977). The FLN in Algeria: Party Development in a Revolutionary Society. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-8371-9401-1. Retrieved 30 October 2024.


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