Mohamed Boudia

Biography

Mohamed Boudia (in Arabic: محمد بوديا), born February 24, 1932 in the Casbah of Algiers and died June 28, 1973 in Paris 5th, is a playwright, militant and Algerian independence activist and of the Palestinian cause. Mohamed Boudia, a kid from the Casbah, left school at the end of primary school, went to shine shoes or sell newspapers. In the mid-1940s Boudia experienced his first arrest: while an apprentice tailor, he was sent to a juvenile prison for having robbed his boss of the exact amount that the latter refused to pay him. This event would be the first milestone in his personality as an…