Also known as: Daniel Ali, دانيال فيرين, Daniel Vérin, دانييل علي فيرين
Biography
Daniel Ali Vérin (Arabic: دانييل علي فيرين), born in Algiers on June 18, 1933, and died in April 2025, was a teacher and mujahid (fighter in the Algerian War of Independence).
Daniel Vérin, from a French family, grew up in French colonial Algeria. He began his career as a schoolteacher in the early 1950s. Deeply attached to his homeland and to the republican values of equality and justice, the young Daniel developed a keen political awareness at a very early age in the face of the blatant inequalities of the fundamentally unjust colonial system.
When the Algerian War broke out on November 1, 1954, he made a radical and courageous choice by fully committing himself to the struggle for Algerian independence. He refused to obey the French military conscription order, and in 1955-1956, he officially joined the National Liberation Front (FLN), then the National Liberation Army (ALN). During this period, he adopted the first name "Ali," symbolizing his complete identi...
