Abdelkhalek Torres Explained
Abdelkhalek Torres (Arabic: عبد الخالق الطريس; 1910 – May 27, 1970) was a Moroccan journalist and nationalist leader based in Tetouan, Morocco during the Spanish protectorate of Morocco era.[1]
He co-founded an arabophone newspaper entitled al-Hurriya (Freedom) along with Abdesalam Bennuna.[2]
Torres's 1934 play Intissar al haq (The Victory of the Right), "is still considered the first published Moroccan play," according to scholar Kamal Salhi.[3]
His political activity from the 1930s on culminated in the independence of Morocco in 1956.[4] [5] [6] In his later years, Torres served first as ambassador to Spain and Egypt, and then as Minister of Justice.[7]
Notes and References
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- News: تاريخ الصحافة العربية - المغرب. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/Z2IPcJnlfXU . 2021-12-21 . live. 11 May 2016. الجزيرة الوثائقية. ar.
- Book: Martin Banham . 2004 . Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia . A History of Theatre in Africa . Kamal Salhi . Cambridge University Press . 978-0-521-80813-2 . 64 .
- C. R. Pennell. Morocco since 1830: a history. NYU Press, 2000. Pages 233-322, passim.
- Sebastian Balfour. Deadly embrace: Morocco and the road to the Spanish Civil War. Oxford University Press, 2002. Page 264.
- Christian Leitz and David Joseph Dunthorn. Spain in an international context, 1936-1959. Berghahn Books, 1999. Pages 160-162.
- Book: 1962 . A Political Handbook of the World . Published for Council on Foreign Relations by Harvard University Press and Yale University Press.
