ISLAMIC ARCHIVESThe Desert Detention Camp (Muʿtaqal al-sahraʾ)Mohammed al-Mokhtar Soussi

Original title: معتقل الصحراء
Language: Arabic
Type: Memoir
Rights: Read at the source · In copyright in Morocco (author d. 1963); listed with a link, not hosted.

COLONIALISM AND DECOLONISATION

The Desert Detention Camp (Muʿtaqal al-sahraʾ)

Name: The Desert Detention Camp (Muʿtaqal al-sahraʾ)
Author: Mohammed al-Mokhtar Soussi

معتقل الصحراء

Mohammed al-Mokhtar Soussi

An account of his detention at Tinjdad and Aghbalou n’Kerdous in 1952–1954, with poems.

Keywords: detention, nationalism, colonialism, poetry

Archived 27 October 2026 · Source: Goodreads

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Soussi, Mohammed al-Mokhtar. The Desert Detention Camp (Muʿtaqal al-sahraʾ). Archived 27 October 2026 in Islamic Internet Archives: Archive of Modern Islamic Thought. https://islamicarchives.org/works/mohammed-al-mokhtar-soussi-mutaqal-al-sahra/