To those who don’t know, the Algerian national anthem was written in 1955 by revolutionary & poet Moufdi Zakaria on the walls of his French prison cell with his own blood, because the French denied him access to pen & paper.

So whenever you hear the Algerian anthem played at the Olympics, just know the words you hear being shouted from loyal fans were first etched into the concrete of a French prison cell with the blood of a beaten and bloodied Algerian revolutionary.

With this in mind, the line “we are determined that Algeria must live” from the anthem hits you like a beating to the chest.

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