Benjamin Stora (born 2 December 1950[1]) is a French historian, expert on North Africa, who is widely considered one of the world's leading authorities on Algerian history. He was born in a Jewish family in Constantine, Algeria, which left the country following its War of Independence in 1962[2]. The main body of his writing is in French, but some works have been translated into English.
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In 1968, Benjamin Stora joined Pierre Lambert's Trotskyist activist group Alliance des Jeunes pour le Socialisme - Organisation Communiste Internationaliste (AJS-OCI, lit. "youth's alliance for socialism - internationalist communist organisation")[3][4]. In 1986, Stora made a biography about Algerian nationalist and independantist leader Messali Hadj (Algerian National Movement)[3]. Some of his writings are published in the French Communist Party's newspaper L'Humanité[5].
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