The extraordinary developments in the Middle East and North Africa this year have not been entirely welcomed by the authorities in Israel, who now have a range of new problems to add to some more familiar ones. My passports say...
Read MoreLONDON burns. The Arab Spring triggers popular rebellions against autocrats across the Arab world. The Israeli Summer brings 250,000 Israelis into the streets, protesting the lack of affordable housing and the way their country...
Read More[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaLZYYK9nc0] Berber musicians in Morocco celebrated their heritage and culture in the eighth annual Timitar Festival ahead of the July 1st constitutional referendum vote. Making Berber an...
Read MoreWashington, DC (June 29, 2011) — Morocco is “still far from a democracy,” according to Younes Abouyoub, lead organizer of MoroccoTomorrow and political analyst at Columbia University, but it will face a...
Read MoreThis article appeared originally in The Atlanticist blog. At a time when, as the experts assembled at a symposium earlier this month hosted by the Atlantic Council’s Ansari Africa Center noted, the fate of both the “Arab Spring”...
Read MoreToday’s opinion piece on the proposed constitutional reforms by Moroccan King Mohammed VI in today’s Wall Street Journal....
Read MoreThe Moroccan government has banned peaceful demonstrations and violently squelched attempted protest rallies following the April 29 terrorist attack in a Marrakesh cafe that left 16 people dead, according to the New York Times....
Read MoreMarch 3, 2011 * In a short article in ReligiousIntelligence.com one of the country’s Jewish leaders insists that his community has nothing to fear from the current unrest. The situation is stable… The King is listening,...
Read MoreFebruary 20, 2011 * Writing in the New York Times (Fears of Chaos Temper Call for Change in Morocco February 20, 2011, Steven Erlanger writes that demonstrations in Morocco have been muted by a fear of chaos, a prevalent...
Read MoreJanuary 31 – February 11, 2011 * In an article in World Defense Review (Moroccan Exceptionalism? February 10, 2011), J. Peter Pham, Senior Vice President of the American Committee on Foreign Policy and a professor at...
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