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Place of Birth: Illoula Oumalou, Tizi Ouzou Province, Algeria
About Ferhat Mehenni
- Ferhat Mehenni, also known as Ferhat Imazighen Imula, is a Kabyle artist, a political activist and the founder and first President of the Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylie.
- Since 1 June 2010 he has been the President of the Provisional Government of Kabylia, a government in exile that the movement set up in France.
- He has been a Laureate of the Gusi Peace Prize since 23 July 2013. In 2012, Mehenni assumed a controversial position by visiting Israel where he voiced his support for and solidarity with Israel, comparing it to Kabylie: "We are in a hostile environment.
- Both countries share kind of the same path, but Israel already exists – that’s the only difference."
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