Abraham Serfaty

Abraham Serfaty ( born 1926 in Casablanca, Morocco, † November 18, 2010 in Marrakech, Morocco) was a Moroccan dissident dissident and political activist in the time of Leaden years.

Life

Serfaty comes from a Jewish middle-class family who lived since their expulsion from Andalusia in the 15th century in Tangier and was resident at the time of his birth in the French part of the Protectorate of Morocco. He made his engineering degree in 1949 in Paris at the École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris. Politically, he was already active since joining the movement of the Moroccan young communists in 1944. To his study beginning in France in 1945, he joined the French Communist Party (PCF ) in the case. After Serfatys return to Morocco he became a member of the country's Communist Party. The rulers in French Morocco arrested him in 1950, put him in prison for six years and imposed a monitored enforced stay in France.

Serfaty returned to the independence of his homeland back there and was from 1957 to 1960 employed at the Ministry of Economy and represented there by a foreign policy less dependent mine his country. From 1960 to 1968 he was director of research and development in the State Bureau of phosphates, but resigned from his position back in solidarity with striking miners.

After the Six Day War in 1967, he turned away as a Jew by the policies of the Israeli government towards the Palestinians and advocated a Palestinian state. From 1968 to 1972 he taught at the Engineering School of Mohammedia. During this time he also worked with the art journal Souffles / antifascists, which was directed by Abdellatif Laabi.

Serfaty left in 1970, the Communist Party of Morocco, which seemed too doctrinaire and engaged in the Marxist-Leninist organization forward (Arabic Illa al - Amam ). In January 1972 he was arrested for the first time and released after severe torture to public pressure. In March 1972 he went with his friend also searched Abdellatif Zeroual into the ground. There he met his future wife, Christine dAure, the two helped in hiding. Both, however, were detected in August 1974 and abused again; Zeroual died as a result. Serfaty was sentenced in October 1974 along with four other comrades to life imprisonment. Primer was a "conspiracy against the security of the state". He spent the next seventeen years in prison in Kenitra. There Serfaty In 1986, through the mediation of Danielle Mitterrand, his supporter and editor of his writings marry.

Exile and return to Morocco

Serfaty was released in September 1991 from the prison, but immediately banished from Morocco. his Statsbürgerschaft was denied because his father was a Brazilian citizen. In Frankrerich the couple Serfaty found asylum, where Abraham from 1992 taught at the Université de Paris VIII until 1995, including the theme: identities and democracy in the Arab world.

Two months after the death of the Moroccan King Hassan II Serfaty was able to return to Morocco with his wife. The government under Mohammed VI. asked them a house in Mohammedia available and granted a monthly pension. At the same time he was appointed to the Supervisory Board of the Authority for petroleum research and promotion ( ONAREP ). This official position did not prevent Serfaty in his criticism of the domestic policy of Morocco, which even led to the resignation of the Prime Minister Abderrahmane Yousoufi in December 2000 in a case.

Publications

  • 2002: first edition: Together with Christine dAure - Serfaty; La mémoire de l' autre. Tarik Éditions, Casablanca, ISBN 9954-419-00-4.
  • 2001: together with Mikhael Elbaz: L' insoumis: Juifs, Marocains et rebelles. Desclée Éditions de Brouwer, ISBN 2-220-04724-5.
  • 1998: Le Maroc du noir au Gris. Éditions Syllepse, ISBN 2-907993-89-5.
  • 1992: Dans les Prisons du Roi. Écrits de Kenitra sur le Maroc. Messidor Éditions, Paris, ISBN 2-209-06640-9.
  • 1992: Écrits de prison sur la Palestine. Éditions Arcantère, ISBN 2-86829-059-0.
  • 1977: Lutte anti- sioniste et Révolution Arabe - Esai sur le judaïsme marocain et le sionisme. Éditions Quatre -Vents
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