Farḥāt ʿAbbās (Ferhat Abbas, 1899–1985) was an Algerian pharmacist, journalist, politician, and leader of the Algerian nationalist movement. He was born in 1899 in a village near Taher, in northeastern Algeria, the son of a local qāʾid (administrator). Farḥāt’s father, a self-made person, sent his sons to the local French primary school. Through scholarships, ʿAbbās continued his studies at the collège of Philippeville (present-day Skikda), then at the high school in Constantine. After his military service (1921–3), ʿAbbās studied pharmacy at the Univers…