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{{Short description|Algerian nationalist and politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Saad Dahlab
| image               = Foto-of-Saad-Dahlab.jpg
| office              = [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Algeria)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]]
| primeminister       = [[Ahmed Ben Bella]]
| term_start          = 9 August 1961
| term_end            = 22 July 1962
| predecessor         = [[Krim Belkacem]]
| successor           = [[Mohamed Khemisti]]
| office0             =
| birth_date          = {{Birth date|1918|4|18|df=yes}}
| birth_place         = [[Ksar Chellala]], [[French Algeria]]
| death_date          = {{Death date and age|2000|12|16|1918|4|18|df=yes}}
| death_place         = [[Algiers]], [[Algeria]]
| party               = [[National Liberation Front (Algeria)|National Liberation Front]]
| alma_mater          =
| children            =
}}
'''Saad Dahlab''' (April 18, 1918 – December 16, 2000) was an Algerian nationalist and politician. A long-time national activist, he played a part in virtually all the early Algerian nationalist movements: L'[[Étoile Nord-Africaine]] (ENA), the [[Parti du Peuple Algérien]] (PPA) and the [[Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties|Mouvement pour la Triomphe des Libertés Démocratiques]] (MTLD), all of them headed by [[Messali Hadj]].
== Biography ==
He was jailed by [[France]] 1945–46.
After becoming part of the internal anti-Hadj opposition in the PPA-MTLD, he joined the emergent [[National Liberation Front (Algeria)|Front de libération nationale]] (FLN) splinter group, which began an armed rebellion in 1954. During the [[Algerian war of independence]] (1954–62), he was involved with the creation of ''[[El Moudjahid]]''—the FLN [[wikt:bulletin|bulletin]] that evolved into independent Algeria's main [[French language]] [[Algerian newspapers|daily]]—as well as with [[radio]] transmissions and other [[propaganda]] efforts.  He also served as minister of foreign affairs in the 1961-62 version of the group's [[exile government]] (the [[Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic|GPRA]]). After independence in 1962 he served as diplomat in [[Morocco]], and pursued a career in [[business]]. In his later years, he started a publishing company, and among other things published his [[memoirs]] of the war years.
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[[Category:1918 births]]
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[[Category:Étoile Nord-Africaine politicians]]
[[Category:Algerian People's Party politicians]]
[[Category:Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties politicians]]
[[Category:National Liberation Front (Algeria) politicians]]
[[Category:Algerian diplomats]]
[[Category:Government ministers of Algeria]]
[[Category:Algerian expatriates in Morocco]]
[[Category:People from Tiaret Province]]
[[Category:Ambassadors of Algeria to Morocco]]
[[Category:Ministers of foreign affairs of Algeria]]
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