A docudrama retelling of the 1965 kidnapping and probable murder of Moroccan revolutionary Mehdi Ben Barka, "I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed" is a fascinating fourth feature from Serge Le Peron. The plot's ...

RETURNING to Morocco after 35 years in exile, the Ben Barkas looked bemused by the fuss. They pushed through the crowds of former political prisoners who were preparing a hero's welcome at the airport ...

Vijay Prashad interviewed by Rosa Moussaoui, journalist with L’Humanité. This interview was published in French in the newspaper on 27 October. Ben Barka was assassinated on 29 October 1965, sixty ...

The kidnapping and assassination of Moroccan political activist Mehdi Ben Barka, fictionalized in Yves Boisset's L'Attentat in 1972, gets a more historically accurate treatment in Serge Le Péron's ...

Unsolved for 44 years, a case into the disappearance of a prominent Moroccan exile kidnapped off a Paris sidewalk has resurfaced _ and now is posing uncomfortable questions for France's leadership.

This is the third part of a series of articles on the 2006 San Francisco International Film Festival, held April 20-May 4. The first part was posted May 13 and Part 2 May 19. On Friday, October 29, ...

The U.S. and French governments should declassify files relating to the 1965 “disappearance” of Moroccan opposition leader Mehdi Ben Barka, human rights organizations said today in letters to the ...

Last week a fiery-eyed grocer’s son stood among 2,000 cheering Moroccans in a Casablanca movie house to announce the formation of a new political party, the National Union of Popular Forces. It was ...

Morocco’s most troublesome political exile, Mehdi ben Barka, 45, flew into Paris from Geneva a fortnight ago and made a date for lunch at a Left Bank restaurant with some friends. He never showed up ...

To many in the Western world, Arab women are mysterious, repressed and shrouded in long black robes. And many Libyans are aware of that sweeping stereotype. But Libyan women are active in politics, ...