Talk:Zemla Intifada

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Is there any record at all of this usage before the phrase intefada got its current political meaning? collounsbury 15:31, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, in nationalist literature. For example, I have a copy of a book in Arabic ("al-bulizario, qaid wa thawra", Dar al-Masira, Beirut) which is mostly about quoting Polisario documents approvingly and lionizing El Ouali. It was published in 1976, thus well before the Palestinian Intifada, by Leila Badie Eitani, a Lebanese author who I gather was madly in love with the man...

To take one mention on p. 203, Muhammad Bassiri's photo there has a caption describing him as "qaid al-intifada 'am 1970". The Polisario's 1974 Second Congress platform is republished in the same book, and it refers to "intifada 17 yuniu 1970" (p. 43). So usage of the term "intifada" for this in nationalist vocabulary is established since the very beginning, just after the events themselves.

This aside, the article needs formal sourcing. Pazzanita's Political dictionary of W. Sahara should be able to give plenty of that, but alas, I don't own a copy myself.Arre 18:35, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Good, just wanted to be sure. Afraid after that Koavf twit I came to distrust this whole body of work. collounsbury 19:37, 18 February 2007 (UTC).

No problem, but don't be mean, it'll just get you banned. Arre 20:06, 18 February 2007 (UTC)