The Souffles magazine published in Rabat from 1966-72 has been digitally accessible at the National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco since 2010. Souffles had long been unlocatable, for it was banned in Morocco in 1972. Its editor, Abdellatif Laâbi, was imprisoned for eight years before being released following international pressure in 1980 and going into exile in Paris. The magazine is now accessible online thanks to his efforts and an international network. A review of its history was recently provided by the French literary scholar and journalist Kenza Sefrioui in the frame of her doctoral thesis.[1] Articles by the Rome-based art historian Toni Maraini in the Springerin periodical and the online journal Red Threat[2] have contributed to familiarizing a younger generation of writers, academics and cultural producers with Souffles. They include the Bidoun magazine, the South African project Chimurenga, the publicly accessible library of SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin-Neukölln and the l’appartmenet 22 art space in Rabat, as well as the projects I have initiated in Paris and Zurich, Action! painting/publishing and Ästhetik der Dekolonisierung.[3]

[1] Kenza Sefrioui: Souffles (1966-1973), espoirs de révolution culturelle au Maroc (Éditions du Sirocco, 2013).

[2] See: http://www.springerin.at/dyn/heft_text.php?textid=1869&lang=de; und http://www.red-thread.org/en/article.asp?a=41 (05/15/2015)

[3] See: https://www.zhdk.ch/index.php?id=73291 (05/15/2015)