Henri curiel alain gresh biography

Jewish-Egyptian communist (–)

Henri Curiel (13 September – 4 May ) was a left-wing political activist in Egypt and France. Born in Egypt, Curiel led the communist Democratic Movement for National Liberation until he was expelled from the country in

Settling in France, Curiel aided the Algerian Front de Libération Nationale and other national liberation causes, including in South Africa and Latin America.

Henri curiel alain gresh biography

In Curiel was assassinated in Paris; his murderer has never been identified.

Biography

Early life and family

Curiel was born in Cairo to an ItalianSephardic Jewish family. He became an Egyptian citizen in ^[1] His brother Raoul Curiel became a respected archaeologist and numismatist, specializing in Central Asian studies.

A cousin was Eugenio Curiel, a physicist and anti-fascist militant who was murdered in Italy in Another cousin was the noted British KGB spy George Blake. In an interview with Jean Lesieur, published in the French magazine L'E