[1][2] The magazine became a conduit for a new generation of writers, artists, and intellectuals to stage a revolution against imperialist and colonial cultural domination.

[4] From its first issue, Souffles posed an aggressive challenge to the traditional Francophone and Arabophone literary divides by encouraging experimentation, translations and collaborations.

[2] In 1969, in the aftermath of the crushing Arab defeat in the 1967 War, Souffles published a special 15th edition dedicated to Palestine entitled "Pour la révolution palestinienne" ("For the Palestinian Revolution"), marking a new direction for the magazine.

Motivated by the crushing Arab defeat in the Six-Day War and the Paris uprisings, its founder, editor and publisher Abdellatif Laabi declared that "Literature was no longer sufficient."

[2] el-Wali Mustapha es-Sayed is presumed to have participated in writing an article entitled "Filistīn Jadīda Fi Ard as-Sahara" (فلسطين جديدة في أرض الصحراء lit.