Ali Aref Bourhan (Arabic: علي عارف برهان; born 1934) is a Djiboutian politician.

Bourhan would subsequently serve in the territory's representative council as a Harbist politician, strongly supporting Harbi's independence-oriented platform.

[4][5] In 1960, with the fall of the ruling Dini administration, Bourhan assumed the seat of Vice President of the Government Council of French Somaliland, representing the UNI party.

This was because he announced his to resign decision on Radio Djibouti that he would devote himself more fully to preparing for the next referendum that will determine the political future.

[6] In July of the following year, he was elected President of the Government Council of the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas.