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Abraham Serfaty

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Shortly after Morocco's independence in 1956, 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
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with his wife Christine in a house made available to them, even receiving a monthly stipend. In the same year, he was appointed Advisor to the National Moroccan Office of Research and Oil Exploitation (Onarep). This nomination did not stop him for asking then Moroccan Prime Minister
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International pressure was enough in Serfaty's favor that he was finally released from prison in September 1991, but immediately exiled from Morocco and deprived of his Moroccan nationality on grounds that his father was Brazilian. He found a haven in France, with his wife,
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in English). In January 1972, he was arrested for the first time and savagely tortured, but released after heavy popular pressure. As he was again targeted for his continuing fight, Serfaty went underground in March 1972, with one of his friends
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His political activities 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
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community were present at his burial. His funeral at the Jewish cemetery in Rabat was solely attended by Moroccan Muslims, on account of his political stance regarding the Palestinian issue.
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After several months of hiding, Abraham Serfaty and Abdellatif Zeroual were arrested again in 1974. After their arrest, Abdellatif Zeroual died, a victim of torture. In October 1974, at the "
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In 1970, Serfaty left the Communist Party, which he considered to be too doctrinarian and became deeply involved in the establishment of a
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to resign after attacks on the independent newspapers and magazines and restrictions of their rights and
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to return to Morocco in September 1999, and had his Moroccan citizenship restored. He then settled at
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Lutte anti-sioniste et Révolution Arabe – Essai sur le judaïsme marocain et le sionisme
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Abraham Serfaty died on 18 November 2010, at the age of 84 in a clinic in Marrakech.
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and was outraged by what he saw as the mistreatment of the Palestinians.
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of Morocco, for his political actions in favor of democracy , during the
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Abraham Serfaty was the co-author, with his wife Christine, of the book
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was the director of the Research-Development of the Cherifian Office of
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Eight years after his exile and two months after the death of King
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Marco : mort d’Abraham Serfaty, célèbre opposant à Hassan II
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Dans les Prisons du Roi – Écrits de Kénitra sur le Maroc
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Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Morocco
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He graduated in 1949 from 98:Abraham Serfaty was born in 7: 580:Jewish Moroccan politicians 332: 102:, on 16 January 1926, to a 10: 706: 605:20th-century Moroccan Jews 18: 491:), Éditions Stock, 1993, 197:prison, where, thanks to 42: 37: 30: 675:Republicanism in Morocco 640:Moroccan torture victims 475:Le Maroc du noir au gris 304: 127:Moroccan Communist Party 115:École des Mines de Paris 277:had nothing to do with 216:Christine Daure-Serfaty 109:family originally from 615:People from Casablanca 302: 261:), published in 1993. 236:Abderrahmane Youssoufi 144:Abraham Serfaty was a 489:La Mémoire de l'Autre 487:"The Other's Memory ( 298: 259:La Mémoire de l'Autre 655:Moroccan dissidents 645:Moroccan communists 199:Danielle Mitterrand 255:The Other's Memory 250:in November 2010. 242:. 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Abraham Serfaty (Gibraltarian)

Arabic
Moroccan
Marxist-Leninist
militant
political activist
King
Hassan II
Years of Lead
Casablanca
middle-class
Moroccan Jewish
Tangier
École des Mines de Paris
schools
Moroccan Communist Party
Phosphates
Abdellatif Laabi
Moroccan Jew
Zionist
Israel
Marxist-Leninist
Ila al-Amam
Abdellatif Zeroual
Derb Moulay Chérif
Western Sahara
Kenitra
Danielle Mitterrand
Christine Daure

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