12 Facts About Henri Curiel

Henri Curiel was a left-wing political activist in Egypt and France.

In 1978 Henri Curiel was assassinated in Paris; his murderer has never been identified.

Henri Curiel was born in Cairo to an Italian Sephardic Jewish family.

Henri Curiel's son is the French journalist Alain Gresh, who was born in Cairo in 1948 and grew up in Paris.

Henri Curiel was repeatedly arrested, along with many other communists.

Henri Curiel settled in France and led a circle of Jewish communist emigres from Egypt known as the "Rome Group".

Henri Curiel worked for the Jeanson network which supported the Front de Liberation Nationale during the Algerian War.

Henri Curiel was arrested by the French security services in 1960.

Henri Curiel was a founder of "Solidarite", a support group for various anti-colonial and opposition movements in the Third World, such as the African National Congress.

Henri Curiel was put under house arrest in Digne, an administrative measure that was lifted once the accusation was demonstrated to be untrue.

Henri Curiel was assassinated in Paris on 4 May 1978.

Henri Curiel appears in several parts of the 1982 spy thriller Shadow of Shadows by Ted Allbeury, whose plot is focused on George Blake.