Mohamed Boudia

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 activist. Upon his release, he was taken in by a social action office for the integration of young people: there he met Mustapha Gribi, who took him in and introduced him to theater.