A History of Modern Morocco

[...]these outcast elements are refigured as agents of change who "represent a new strain in political life that redefined how opposition to the state could be expressed" (p. 69). [...]the book's discussion of 'Abd al-Hafiz's assassination of Muhammad al-Kattani unveils the brutal struggle between the forces that defended Moroccan autonomy and those who were willing to achieve pragmatic compromises with European imperialistic states to maintain their position in power. While most of the facts about the tumultuous "years of lead" are widely known, thanks to prison memoirs and other testimonial literature, A Modern History of Morocco is probably the first history book to have written these events into the history of the nation. [...]the author undertakes the difficult task of canonizing this history, which institutional conditions in Morocco have yet to accommodate.