ABSTRACT
We come now to the westernmost and the last of the twelve Arab countries examined in this book. 1 Morocco, Iike its three Maghreb and seven of its Mashreq sisters, suffered foreign rule in its recent past. (Saudi Arabia stands out as the one exception to this state· ment, since the Ottoman rule over it had receded with the defeat of Turkey in World War One.) But unlike the Mashreq countries, Morocco and its three neighbours to the east suffered that special form of foreign occupation which is settler colonialism, with massive settlement by the colonising Europeans. Its road to independence from French 'protection' - for the form of occupation applied stipulated that Morocco was a French 'protectorate' - was through struggle and bloodshed, Iike the road of Aigeria, Libya and Tunisia.
