Mohamed Larbi Zitout

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Mohamed Larbi Zitout (Arabic: محمد العربي زيتوت), is an Algerian political commentator and former diplomat, born on 29 July 1963 in Laghouat, Algeria.

Biography[]

After graduating from the  [fr] in Algiers and obtaining a master's degree in International Relations,[1] he pursued a career in diplomacy. By 1995, he was a civil servant in Libya. In 1995, however - three years into the Algerian Civil War - he resigned from his position and emigrated to the United Kingdom 

He has been interviewed or appeared  commentator in a number of newspapers and broadcast media, such as the BBC, ABC[2] and Al-Jazeera,[3] and has contributed chapters to An Inquiry into the Algerian Massacres ("Les Régimes Arabes et le Conflit Algérien", p. 847) and  ("La reconciliation passe par réhabilitation des victimes, de la nation et de l'Etat", p. 121.)  He is a founding member of ,[4] a human rights organisation set up in 2001 dedicated to fighting impunity.

References[]

  1. ^ "Rachad: Mohamed al-arabi Zitout". Archived from the original on 2007-05-24. Retrieved 2007-05-24.
  2. ^ ABC Radio National, 12 April 2007
  3. ^ ما وراء الخبر: موجة العنف في الجزائر والمغرب, 11/4/2007
  4. ^ Justitia Universalis: Membres fondateurs

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