This contribution draws on an ongoing research & archival project on radical publishing in Morocco, during which we came across an ad in Souffles (1969) that read “PHALASTINE: a Moroccan weekly entirely dedicated to the Palestinian struggle published every Friday: news, accounts, analysis and documents on the struggle”. No one we knew had ever seen […]
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The proposed contribution aims to examine Souffles/Anfas, a French- and Arabic-language quarterly literary and political magazine published in Rabat between 1966 and 1971, as a key site of radical cultural and political production in post-independence Morocco. Founded in the aftermath of Moroccan independence by writer Abdellatif Laâbi—a prominent figure in Morocco’s post-independence revolutionary left—Souffles first […]
Mapping the Social Lives of The Namibian Review
The Namibian Review: Origins The Namibian Review: A Journal of Contemporary South West African Affairs was published between 1976-1987. Initially it was produced by the Namibian Review Group (later known as the Swedish Namibian Association) and 14 editions were printed by Namibian political exiles in Sweden between 1976-1978. In 1979 the journal was translocated from […]
Free Palestine: British-based Solidarities with the Palestinian Revolution
Free Palestine was a monthly magazine published in Britain from 1968 until 1984, after which it moved to Australia from where it continued publication until 1992. The magazine, little known by activists or scholars today, is effectively an archive of the Palestine solidarity movement in Britain during the years of its publication, and contains a […]
Free Palestine was a monthly magazine published in Britain from 1968 until 1984, after which it moved to Australia from where it continued publication until 1992. The first issue of the paper in June, 1968, featured an editorial outlining its aims and positions: “As a group of Palestinian Arabs residing in the UK, we hope […]
Tulu was a Soviet state-sponsored publication in Pakistan that was in print from 1967-1991, and stopped production after the fall of the Soviet Union.
The journal Third World Liberation Front was produced and distributed in the San Francisco Bay Area of North America. The journal itself only produced three issues in 1969 but there were numerous periodical-type documents such as pamphlets and zines created by the movement, the Third World Liberation Front, between 1968 and 1972.
The journal Al-Fatah (“The Victory” in Arabic) published in Karachi, Pakistan from May 1970 till approximately July 1990. The periodical was produced in Urdu in the two decades it was distributed and became a major supporter of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). The journal Al-fatah was largely socialist in terms of political inclination and critical of […]
APSI (Agencia de Prensa y Servicios Informativos) was a news magazine focused on international issues. Its origins can be traced back to 1976, during the Chilean dictatorship. The magazine circulated in the Spanish language in Santiago de Chile, and as its success grew, it expanded to other cities. It was not until 1982 that it […]
Lotus was the trilingual (Arabic, English, and French) journal published by the Afro-Asian Writers Association from 1968 to 1991. Initially headquartered in Cairo, but with the French and English editions printed out of East Germany, the journal relocated to Beirut in 1973 following Anwar Sadat’s peace treaty with Israel and the consequent Arab boycott of […]