Al Muharrir

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Al Muharrir
TypeDaily newspaper
Founder(s)Socialist Union of Popular Forces
PublisherSocialist Union of Popular Forces
FoundedDecember 1974
Political alignmentSocialist
LanguageArabic
Ceased publicationJune 1981
CountryMorocco

Al Muharrir (Arabic: المُحَرِّر; the Liberator or the Editor) was an Arabic-language daily newspaper published in Morocco. It was in circulation between December 1974 and June 1981.

History and profile

Al Muharrir was first published in December 1964.[1] The daily was the organ of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces party.[2][3] Therefore, it had a socialist leaning[4] and oppositional stance.[5]

Omar Benjelloun served as the editor-in-chief of the paper who was assassinated on 18 December 1975.[6] Later Mustafa Karchawi assumed the post.[7] Mohammed Abed Al Jabri, a Moroccan critic and academic, was among the significant contributors of the paper from its start in 1964.[1][4] Abdelkerim Mouti was another regular contributor.[8]

In November 1965 Al Muharrir was banned in Morocco, and its editor-in-chief was jailed for ten months.[8] The daily was relaunched after six months.[8] Together with other opposition papers, including Al Alam and L'Opinion, it was frequently suspended during the mid-1970s.[8]

Al Muharrir ceased publication in June 1981.[9][10] It was succeeded by Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki which was first published in May 1983.[9][11]

References

  1. ^ a b "Mohammed Abed al-Jabri". Ibn Rushd Organization. Archived from the original on 21 February 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  2. ^ Valérie K. Orlando (2009). Francophone Voices of the "New" Morocco in Film and Print. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-230-62259-3.
  3. ^ Mohammed El Sayed Selim (2014). "Towards a New WMD Agenda in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: An Arab Perspective". In George Joffe; Alvaro Vasconcelos (eds.). The Barcelona Process: Building a Euro-Mediterranean Regional Community. London; New York: Routledge. p. 134. ISBN 978-1-135-30982-4.
  4. ^ a b Jaafar Aksikas (2009). Arab Modernities: Islamism, Nationalism, and Liberalism in the Post-colonial Arab World. New York: Peter Lang. p. 63. ISBN 978-1-4331-0534-0.
  5. ^ El Mustapha Lahlali (2011). Contemporary Arab Broadcast Media. Edinburg: Edinburg University Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-7486-8864-7.
  6. ^ Henry Munson Jr (Summer 1991). "Morocco's Fundamentalists". Government and Opposition. 26 (3): 341. doi:10.1111/j.1477-7053.1991.tb01145.x.
  7. ^ Robin Bidwell (2012). Dictionary of Modern Arab History. London; New York: Routledge. p. 429. ISBN 978-1-136-16298-5.
  8. ^ a b c d Mohammed Ibahrine (2005). The Internet and Politics in Morocco (PhD thesis). University of Hamburg.
  9. ^ a b William A. Rugh (2004). Arab Mass Media: Newspapers, Radio, and Television in Arab Politics. Westport, CT; London: Praeger. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-275-98212-6.
  10. ^ "Moroccan human rights groups". Amnesty International. 1991. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  11. ^ MoroccoArchived 16 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine The Arab Press Network. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
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