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Previewing Morocco’s Legislative Elections
On October 7, Moroccans will head to the polls to vote in legislative elections, another important marker in the Kingdom’s path to democracy. Elections are nothing new in Morocco — since the late 1990s, the Kingdom has held a series of…
Despite Continuing Challenges, Women Advancing in Morocco and the MENA
This weekend in Barcelona, the Union for the Mediterranean is hosting a conference, “Women for the Mediterranean: Driving Force for development and stability.” The Union’s website notes that “First affected by economic crisis, climate…
Towards a Deconstruction of Patriarchal Misreadings of the Holy Quran and Hadith
Abstract: This paper, as the title suggests, revolves around the core theme of challenging some biased interpretations of some verses in the Quran that address women. The retrospective chapter proceeds first by defining Islamic Feminism as…
Here’s What Ban Ki-moon Should Talk to the Polisario and Algeria About
Next week, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon will visit Algeria and the Polisario-run refugee gulags around Tindouf in the vast, vacant and often scorching southern Algerian desert. Here is what I hope he will say to whoever is pretending to…
Why Did Islamic State (Daesh) Launch Virulent Media Campaign against Morocco, Others?
Since the beginning of the year, the dominant terrorism-related stories in North Africa are the continuing inroads by Daesh into Libya and the growing lack of security in Tunisia from external and internal factors. While Morocco and Algeria…
2016 Year of Unity and Victory over Islamic Extremism
Christmas this year has coincided with the birthday of prophet Mohammad of Islam (by lunar calendar). The two great prophets God granted man to lead him towards peace and prosperity. They two men of God came to teach us how to have respect…
Iran losing more troops in Syria, and the entire war
Syria, and the Mullahs sitting on the throne in Tehran seem to be losing the conflict in its entirety. An increasing number of reports are sprouting from Iran’s state-run news outlets covering the deaths of senior officers such as the likes…
Why the Western Sahara Matters
With the Middle East in chaos, it is understandable that few in Washington have time for the Western Sahara. After all, Syria has become the world’s largest generator of refugees. Iraq continues to teeter on the brink of chaos, and both…
Western Sahara: Better Now than the Inevitable Later
Forty years on, it may seem as though the dispute over who is sovereign in Western Sahara is destined to grind on without resolution for decades to come. But don’t bet on it. Things have been changing radically on the ground in Morocco’s…
King Challenges International Community to Support African Development
Too often, in the drama of high political tension at the opening of the UN General Assembly, the media focuses on the hot button news such as Russia versus the US on issues including Syria, Iran, and the Ukraine, that naturally drive the…