The international campaign by Moroccan nationalists, orchestrated throughout three continents in order to gain independence, has been a quite neglected topic of historiography. David Stenner's Globalizing Morocco fills the gap in the field of studies on Moroccan nationalism, investigating how the activists of the Sultanate fighting against French colonialism were able to create a global network of sympathizers to their cause in the aftermath of World War II, when the establishment of the United Nations and the Arab League, brought new hopes for colonized people. From Tangier to Cairo, Paris and New York, for around ten years, they strove to find foreign allies—European, American, and Arab “brokers”—influential enough to help them to advocate for Moroccan independence to the international bodies (such as the Arab League and chiefly the UN) and to gain broad public support.
The hub of the nationalists' global anticolonial propaganda in Morocco was Tangier (chap. 1), thanks...
