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Moroccan poet
Saida Menebhi
Born1952 (1952)
Marrakesh
DiedDecember 11, 1977(1977-12-11) (aged 24–25)
Casablanca
Cause of deathhunger strike

Saida Menebhi (1952 in Marrakesh – 11 December 1977 in Casablanca) was a Moroccan poet, high school teacher, and activist with the Marxist revolutionary movement Ila al-Amam. In 1975, she, together with five other members of the movement, was sentenced for seven years of imprisonment for anti-state activity. On November 8, 1977, inside the jail in Casablanca, she participated in a collective hunger strike, and died on the 35th day of the strike at Avicenne Hospital.

Her poetry, collected and published first in 1978, and later again in 2000, is considered a prime example of Moroccan revolutionary and feminist literature. She wrote in French. Translations of a selection of her poems to English were published for the first time in 2021 by See Red Press.

Abduction

On January 16, 1976, Saida Menebhi was abducted and detained—along with 3 other female militants, Rabea Ftouh, Piera di Maggio and Fatima Oukacha—in the secret Moulay Sherif Prison in Casablanca, now known as a prominent center of torture in the period of King Hassan II. There, they were subjected to a number of different kinds of physical and psychological torture before being transferred to the civilian prison in Casablanca. Menebhi and her comrades Fatima Oukacha and Rabea Ftouh were sentenced to indefinite solitary confinement in the civilian prison of Casablanca.

Published work

References

  1. Regina, Giusy (12 December 2011). "Marocco: 34° anniversario della morte di Saida Menebhi, icona d'attivismo" (in Italian). ArabPress. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  2. "11 décembre 1977 : décès de Saïda Menebhi, « la martyre du peuple marocain »" (in French). Diversgens. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  3. Prison, Poetry, Martyrdom: Saida Menebhi and the Moroccan Years of Lead
  4. " الشهيدة سعيدة المنبهي كتبت الشعر بالاظافر والدم (مختارات من ديوانها) " . الموقع الإلكتروني لمؤسسة الحوار المتمدن . العدد 4867 . 15 يوليو 2015 Archived 2017-02-05 at the Wayback Machine
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  6. "محسين الشهباني - الشهيدة سعيدة المنبهي كتبت الشعر بالاظافر والدم (مختارات من ديوانها )". الحوار المتمدن. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  7. Orlando, Valérie K. (September 2010). "Feminine spaces and places in the dark recesses of Morocco's past: the prison testimonials in poetry and prose of Saïda Menebhi and Fatna El Bouih". The Journal of North African Studies. 15 (3): 273–288. doi:10.1080/13629380902745884. ISSN 1362-9387. S2CID 143905923.
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