''Or ha-Maʿarav'' () or ''La Lumière du Maroc'' was a Jewish monthly newspaper published in
Judeo-Arabic
Judeo-Arabic dialects (, ; ; ) are ethnolects formerly spoken by Jews throughout the Arabic-speaking world. Under the ISO 639 international standard for language codes, Judeo-Arabic is classified as a macrolanguage under the code jrb, encomp ...
by the Hadida brothers from 1922 to 1924 in Casablanca, Morocco.
Its editorial line was
Zionist
Zionism ( he, צִיּוֹנוּת ''Tsiyyonut'' after ''Zion'') is a nationalist movement that espouses the establishment of, and support for a homeland for the Jewish people centered in the area roughly corresponding to what is known in Je ...
.
[{{Cite book , last=Bensoussan , first=David , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3MRActGa2OgC&pg=PA185 , title=Il tait Une Fois Le Maroc: Tmoignages Du Pass Judo-marocain , date=May 2012 , publisher=iUniverse , isbn=978-1-4759-2608-8 , language=en] It was closed by the
French authorities
The Government of France (French: ''Gouvernement français''), officially the Government of the French Republic (''Gouvernement de la République française'' ), exercises executive power in France. It is composed of the Prime Minister, who ...
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See also
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L'Avenir Illustré
''L’Avenir Illustré'' was a francophone Jewish periodical published in Casablanca, Morocco from 1926 to 1940. Its editorial line was Zionist and its targeted readership was primarily the Westernized Jewish elite in Morocco, especially francopho ...
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References
Jews and Judaism in Casablanca
Judeo-Arabic literature
Newspapers published in Morocco