Mohamed Khemisti

Mohamed Khemisti
Mohamed Khemisti
Minister of Foreign Affairs
	In office; 28 September 1962 – 11 April 1963
Prime Minister	Ahmed Ben Bella
Preceded by	Saad Dahlab
Succeeded by	Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Personal details
Born	11 August 1930; Maghnia, Algeria
Died	5 May 1963 (aged 32); Algiers, Algeria
Political party	National Liberation Front

Mohamed Khemisti (Arabic: محمد خميستي‎; born 11 August 1930; died 5 May 1963) was an Algerian politician. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria for nine months, from 1962 prior to his assassination in 1963.[1] He was married to Fatima Khemisti--instrumental in the enactment of the Khemisti Law, which raised the minimum age of marriage in Algeria to 16 for women and 18 for men.[2]

He also had been the general secretary of UGEMA (the General Union of Muslim Algerian Students, in French Union Générale des Etudiants Musulmans Algériens) and was imprisoned by the French on 12 November 1957.[3]

References

Corleis, Juergen (2011). Always on the Other Side: A Journalist's Journey from Hitler to Howard's End. EMUBooks. pp. 134–135. ISBN 9781447856405. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
Naylor, Phillip C. (7 May 2015). Historical Dictionary of Algeria. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 524. ISBN 9780810879195. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
Paget, Karen M. (2015). Patriotic Betrayal: The Inside Story of the CIA's Secret Campaign to Enroll American Students in the Crusade Against Communism. Yale University Press. p. 203. ISBN 9780300205084. Retrieved 22 May 2017.

External links

"Mohamed Khemisti, le martyr oublié !?". www.reflexiondz.net. 8 May 2015.

Political offices
Preceded by Saad Dahlab	Minister of Foreign Affairs 1962–1963	Succeeded by Abdelaziz Bouteflika

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[1] Corleis, Juergen (2011). Always on the Other Side: A Journalist's Journey from Hitler to Howard's End. EMUBooks. pp. 134–135. ISBN 9781447856405. Retrieved 22 May 2017.

[2] Naylor, Phillip C. (7 May 2015). Historical Dictionary of Algeria. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 524. ISBN 9780810879195. Retrieved 22 May 2017.

[3] Paget, Karen M. (2015). Patriotic Betrayal: The Inside Story of the CIA's Secret Campaign to Enroll American Students in the Crusade Against Communism. Yale University Press. p. 203. ISBN 9780300205084. Retrieved 22 May 2017.