On 30 September 1999, two months after his accession to the throne,
the new Moroccan king, Mohammed VI, announced his decision to
permit political dissident Abraham Serfaty's return to the country.
After 17 years of imprisonment, torture and isolation in a Moroccan
prison and eight years' exile in France, the most celebrated
political opponent of the recently deceased king, Hassan II
(1961-99), became a free citizen. King Mohammed VI allowed Serfaty
to return from exile, a gesture his father refused to make, just
two months after he acceded to the throne. It was an important
poltical act, a powerful symbolic gesture, and a precusror of
other, equally spectacular political decisions, beginning with the
new king's dismissal of Driss Basri, interior minister for 20 years
and dreaded strong man of Hassan II's regime. This is a story of
"homecoming", beginning with Christine Daure-Serfaty's accounts of
friend's re-found after many years, of places in memory brought
back to life, of remembrances resurfacing to sweep over her
emotions and overwhelm her consciousness. Her husband, Abraham
Serfaty, is honoured, celebrated and invited to travel throughout
the country as a hero. But for her, bits and pieces of the past
suddenly and unexpectedly appear, bitter memories of lives lived
"before" haunt her, memories of the prison, of the ongoing struggle
to let the world know, memories of the injustice of their
imprisonment,and of the waiting, always the waiting. Daure-Serfaty
also discusses contemporary Morocco, analyzing the most significant
problems that face Mohammed VI if he is to retain the good will of
Morocco - a politically stable nation with a strong economy and a
well-developed social structure. Finally, she addresses some of the
more basic issues that may play themselves out in the Morocco of
the future: democratization, the status of women, poverty and
finally the "Morocco of the past".
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