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 was the nephew of Muhammad Torres (1820-1908), the Minsiter of Foreign Affairs of Sultan Abdelaziz and his representative at the Algeciras Conference in 1906. He co-founded an Arabic newspaper entitled al-Hurriya (الحرية Freedom) along with Abdesalam Bennuna.[2] In 1936, he founded a political party called al-Islah al-Watani (The National Reform) with backing from the Spanish Falangists with whom he enjoyed a good relationship.
Abdelkhalek Torres | |
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عبد الخالق الطريس | |
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| Minister of Justice | |
| In office 1961 | |
| Monarch | Mohammed V |
| Prime Minister | None |
| Preceded by | Mohamed Bahnini |
| Succeeded by | M'hamed Boucetta |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1910 |
| Died | May 27, 1970 (aged 59–60) |
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]
References
edit- ↑ Lawrence, Adria K. (2013). Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire. Cambridge University Press. p. 169. ISBN 978-1-107-03709-0.
- ↑ "تاريخ الصحافة العربية - المغرب". الجزيرة الوثائقية (in Arabic). 11 May 2016. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21.
- ↑ Kamal Salhi (2004). "Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia". In Martin Banham (ed.). A History of Theatre in Africa. Cambridge University Press. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-521-80813-2.
- ↑ C. R. Pennell. Morocco since 1830: a history. NYU Press, 2000. Pages 233-322, passim[permanent dead link].
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ A Political Handbook of the World. Published for Council on Foreign Relations by Harvard University Press and Yale University Press. 1962.
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