Revolutionary Papers

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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 […]

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 […]

The Moroccan cultural journal Souffles-Anfas [breaths] ran between 1966 and 1971, when it was banned by the Moroccan government and its founder Abdellatif Laâbi was arrested, imprisoned, and tortured for sedition. The journal was published quarterly (with some double-issues) and ran 22 issues over its brief history. Modestly priced at 3 Moroccan Dirhams, distribution averaged […]

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