Si Mohamed Baghdadi (in Arabic: سي محمد بغدادي), born on June 26, 1937 in Souk Ahras in Algeria, joined the historic Wilaya III in 1961 during the Algerian war of national liberation. After Algerian independence, he had a career as a high-level athlete, winning the title of Algerian champion in the 800 m and 4x400 m, before occupying the position of president of the Algerian Athletics Federation from 1967 to 1969. A distinguished professor of literature, a renowned writer, then censor at the El ...