Zohra Drif-Bitat | |
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 Zohra Drif in 1957 | |
| Born | Zohra Drif 28 December 1934 |
| Nationality | Algerian |
| Alma mater | University of Algiers |
| Occupation | Lawyer (retired) |
| Organization | Armée de Libération Nationale (ALN) |
| Movement | Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) |
| Spouse | |
Zohra Drif Bitat (Arabic: زهرة ظريف بيطاط, romanized: Zuhra Ḍrīf Bīṭāṭ, born 28 December 1934)[1] is a retired Algerian lawyer, moudjahid (a militant of the Algerian War of Independence), and the vice-president of the Council of the Nation, the upper house of the Algerian Parliament.[2] Drif was born in Tissemselt, Algeria, part of the province of Tiaret, where her grandfather was an imam and her father served as a lawyer and judge in Tiaret. She is best known for her activities on behalf of the National Liberation Front (FLN) during the Algerian War of Independence.
Drif was married to Rabah Bitat, one of the heads of the FLN and president of the National Assembly. In Algeria, she is considered as a heroine in the Algerian War of Independence against French colonisation. She was a part of the FLN's bomb network and during the Algerian War of Independence, she worked with Ali La Pointe, Hassiba Ben Bouali and Yacef Saâdi, head of the Autonomous Zone of Algiers. Her time in the war is most known in connection with the Milk Bar Café bombing in 1956.
- ^ Domingo, Concepción (2005). Mujer y desarrollo (in Spanish). Universitat de València. ISBN 9788437062549. Archived from the original on 23 November 2023. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
- ^ "Zohra Drif appelle à un grand débat national", El Annabi (in French), 8 February 2011, archived from the original on 14 February 2011, retrieved 23 February 2011