Mohamed Larbi Zitout

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

Biography

After graduating from the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (Algérie) 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.

Since leaving Libya, he has become an outspoken opponent of the Algerian government and human rights advocate. He has been interviewed or appeared as a 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 Quelle réconciliation pour l'Algérie? ("La reconciliation passe par réhabilitation des victimes, de la nation et de l'Etat", p. 121.) He is a founding member of Justitia Universalis,[4] a human rights organisation set up in 2001 dedicated to fighting impunity. On 2 March 2019, he had a heated discussion with a Lebanese journalist, Malak Jaafar, on BBC Arabic Television, and even calling her "ugly", regarding the situation in Algeria.[5]

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
  5. مشادة صاخبة على الهواء مباشرة بين المعارض الجزائري محمد العربي زيتوت ومذيعة بي بي سي. soshals.com (in Arabic). 2 March 2019.
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