to live in the south of France after he had been released on health grounds; however, he succeeded in gaining asylum in Egypt. There he presided over the Liberation Committee of the Arab Maghreb. After Morocco gained independence in 1956, Mohammed V of Morocco invited him back to Morocco. He refused as long as French forces were on North African soil. From Egypt, he gave his support to the Rif revolt in 1958 against the Moroccan government. Death He died in 1963, just after he had seen his hopes of a Maghreb independent of colonial powers completed by the independence of Algeria. Family Abd el-Krim had 6 sons and 5 daughters from two different women. Honors and awards : Order of Isabella the Catholic (Spain; Knight's Cross; 1910) Cross of Military Merit (Spain; Grand Cross - Red Decoration; 1910) Cross of Military Merit (Spain; Grand Cross - White Decoration; 1910) Medalla de África (Spain; Medal; 1910) Medalla de la Paz de Marruecos (Spain; Medal; 1910) : Order of the Republic of Tunisia (Tunisia; Grand Cross; 1960) Sources Asprey, R.B. (2002) War in the Shadows: The Guerrilla in History, iUniverse Publishing. . Boyd, C. (1979) Praetorian Politics in Liberal Spain, University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, North Carolina. . Carr, R. (1980) Modern Spain: 1875-1980, Oxford University Press: Oxford. . Castro, F., Ramonet, I. & Hurley, A. (2008) Fidel Castro: My Life: a Spoken Autobiography, Scribner: New York. . Cowley, R. & Parker, G. (eds.) (1996) The Reader's Companion to Military History, Houghton Mifflin: Boston. . Hart, D.M. (1976) The Aith Waryaghar of the Moroccan Rif, History Fund Publications: Tucson, Arizona. . Keegan, J. & Wheatcroft, A. (2014) Who's Who in Military History: From 1453 to the Present Day, Routledge Publishing: New York. . Pierson, P. (1999) The History of Spain, Greenwood Press: Westport, Connecticut. . References Bibliography Further reading Abdelkrim, Mémoires d'Abd el Krim / recueillis par J. Roger-Mathieu, (in French), Paris, Librairie des Champs Elysées, 1927 Abdelkrim, Mémoires II, la Crise franco-marocaine, 1955—1956, (in French), Paris, Plon, 1984 Bensoussan, David, Il était une fois le Maroc : témoignages du passé judéo-marocain , éd. du Lys, www.editionsdulys.ca, Montréal, 2010 (); Second edition : www.iuniverse.com, Bloomington, IN, 2012, , 620p. (ebook) Montagne, R. (1954) Révolution au Maroc (in French), Paris: France Empire. Pennell, C.R. (1986) A Country with a Government and a Flag: The Rif War in Morocco, 1921-1926, Menas: