Khalid ibn Hashim

Khaled ibn Hashimi ibn Hajj Abd al Qadir (1875 – January 1936) was the grandson of the military leader Abd al Qadir and was for a time a prominent opponent of the nature of French colonial rule in Algeria.

[1] Khaled ibn Hashimi was well known in Algeria thanks to his grandfather's protracted struggle with the French, and he was commonly referred to as the Emir.

[1] Khaled continued to serve in the French army, and fought in the trenches during the First World War until he was struck down with Tuberculosis.

He accepted this offer, withdrew from the election he was contesting, closed down his personal publication, and went into exile in Damascus in 1924.

[4] Over time, Khaled moved increasingly towards more secular and nationalist politics, appearing alongside communists and others.