Moroccan Activists - Moroccan Democracy Activists, Abraham Serfaty, Simo Ben Bachir, Ali Salem Tamek, Mohamed Elmoutaoikil (Paperback)

Chapters: Moroccan Democracy Activists, Abraham Serfaty, Simo Ben Bachir, Ali Salem Tamek, Mohamed Elmoutaoikil. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Abraham Serfaty (Arabic: born 1926 in Casablanca, Morocco) is an internationally prominent Moroccan dissident, militant, and political activist, who was imprisoned for years by King Hassan II of Morocco, for his political actions in favor of democracy and developments regime, during the Years of Lead. He paid a high price for such actions: fifteen months living underground, seventeen years of imprisonment and eight years of exile. Abraham Serfaty was born in Casablanca, in 1926, of a middle-class Jewish family originally from Tangier. He graduated in 1949 of Ecole des Mines de Paris one of the most prominent French engineering Grandes Ecoles. His path as a political activist started very early: In February 1944, he joined the Moroccan Youth Communists, and, upon his arrival in France in 1945, the French Communist Party. When he returned to Morocco in 1949, he joined the Moroccan Communist Party. His anti-colonialist fight had him arrested and jailed by the French authorities, and in 1950 he was assigned a forced residence in France for six years. On the morrow of Moroccos independence, he encumbered several, more technical than political, posts and was part of the Ministry of Economy from 1957 to 1960. During that time, he has been one of the many promoters of the new mining policy of the newly independent Morocco. From 1960 to 1968, he was the director of the Research-Development of the Cherifian Office of Phosphates, but revoked of his duties because of his solidarity with miners at one strike. From 1968 to 1972, he taught at the Engineers School of Mohammedia, and at the same time, collaborated a...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=4514751