A discussion with Dr. Hicham Alaoui (Hicham Alaoui Foundation) and Dr. Abbas Milani (Stanford Iranian Studies) in March of 2023. Stanford Iranian Studies Program لقد دُعيت مؤخرًا إلى مؤتمر في جامعة ستانفورد الأمريكية بعنوان “حوارات حول انتقال إيران إلى الديمقراطية العلمانية”، شاركت فيه عن بُعد رفقة العديد من الأكاديميين والناشطين الإيرانيين من جميع أنحاء العالم. […]
Conférence à Sciences-Po Menton, Décembre 2022
The advent of the Arab Spring in late 2010 was a hopeful moment for partisans of progressive change throughout the Arab world. Authoritarian leaders who had long stood in the way of meaningful political reform in the countries of the region were either ousted or faced the possibility of political if not physical demise. The […]
After the failure of the Oslo Accords, the “agreement of the century” definitively buried the idea of a Palestinian state. The recent wave of violence from which Hamas and Israel have benefited is the consequence. The organization of democratic elections must allow the mobilization that began in East Jerusalem to be extended to Palestine.
Why undertake yet another study on Education in the Arab World? The World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), various bilateral aid agencies, and countless independent analysts have already produced a substantial library devoted to documenting and accounting for Arab educational performance.
Morocco five years from now, in the aftermath of the “Cumin Revolution” : through such a projection and without any recourse to political fiction,the article draws an a posteriori balance sheet of the current stalemate by looking at the solutions proposed. Such a reversal of perspective makes it possible to raise old questions, left unanswered, […]
Moulay Hicham El Alaoui, the first cousin of Morocco’s King Mohammed VI, nicknamed the “rebel prince”, has just written an explosive book: “Diary of a Banished Prince”. It offers a rare inside account of life in the royal family but is also a vivid attack on the authoritarian drift of the Moroccan monarchy. This comes […]
The complex interrelation among world societies means that the solutions to the Middle East’s problems for the twenty-first Century demand difficult decisions everywhere. And I hope you do not think I came to provide answers. I don’t have any. I would rather take the more realistic path of setting forth in no uncertain terms the […]