native_name_lang death_date death_place birth_place nationality native_name birth_date known_for image article_title name occupation
ar 17 august 1977 tunis , tunisia ghardaïa , french algeria algerian مفدي زكرياء 12 june 1908 author algerian revolution of the algerian national anthem poet of the moufdi zakaria scratching.jpg moufdi zakaria
 moufdi zakaria poet , writer
moufdi zakaria

moufdi zakaria ; -lrb- born , zekri cheikh . -rrb-
, was an algerian poet and writer .
he wrote `` kassaman '' , the algerian national anthem while in prison in 1955 .
