Djamila Bouhired
Algerian revolution broke out in November 1, 1954 against the colonial French and lasted 7 years and a half. He died more than a million and a half million Algerians.
The Algerian revolution from 1954 to 1962
Djamila Bouhired (born 1935) is an Algerian nationalist. Raised in a middle-class family, she went to a French school and joined the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) while a student activist. Later, she worked as a liaison officer and personal assistant of FLN commander Yacef Saadi in Algiers.
In April 1957, she was hurt in a shootout and taken by French troops. She was convicted of terrorism and sentenced to death, but her execution was blocked after a media campaign by her French lawyer, Jacques Vergès. She was released in 1962 and was regarded as a hero in Algeria.
Bouhired and Vergès eventually married, and worked together on Révolution africaine, a French magazine focusing on African nationalist revolutions. She was one of the trio of FLN female bombers depicted in the movie Battle of Algiers. She was also depicted in the film Jamila the Algerian (1958) by Egyptian director Youssef Chahine.