Djamila Bouhired

Djamila Bouhired (Arabic: جميلة بوحيرد‎, born 1935) is an Algerian revolutionary.

Bouhired is a nationalist who opposed the French colonial rule of Algeria. She was raised in a middle-class family, having attended a French school. She would go on in her youth to join the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) while a student activist. There she worked as a liaison officer and personal assistant of FLN commander Yacef Saadi in Algiers. Djamila Bouhired is considered by many as being among the most powerful female freedom fighters of the twentieth century, but still for vague reasons, very little is known about this national cum international heroine despite her being widely considered the face of the Algerian Revolution.