Career
Born in the Kabylia region, he studied at Bouzaréa in Algiers, and was appointed to a school in El-Had Thénia. In 1912, he rebelled against the director and left Algeria for Cairo, joining al-Azhar University. In 1913, he moved to Iran where he learned Persian.
He subsequently moved to Russia and then China around 1914, picking up the local languages.
Tazerout then visited Europe, and was recruited in Belgium for service in 1917 during World War I. He later studied at Poitiers and Strasbourg. He spent much of his last 20 years back in Algeria, before passing away in Tangier in 1973.