Talk Morocco

“If you don’t take this opportunity to now try something new you will regret it. For the highway to democracy is actually a ring road. Eventually you will end up where you started and you will see your grandchildren in Tahrir Square.”

Avant la lecture de ce billet, il faudra d’abord tenir compte que mon pessimisme n’est pas issu d’une analyse empirique ou théorique mais d’un simple constat de la société marocaine. Cette analyse est alors doublement biaisée : en ma qualité de marocaine, je suis dans l’incapacité de porter un regard étranger dont découlerait une meilleure [...]

Sahar Taman shares her own experiences with Egypt’s security forces and wishes the best to her fellow Egyptians.

Ahmed offers his take on the disconnect between a disenchanted, disenfranchised Egyptian youth and an ailing dictatorship that seems to belong to another age.

Mustapha Ajbaili shares his experiences as a Moroccan student in Egypt and his thoughts on Egypt’s uprising.

Using Google statistics, Mahdi analyses the role the Internet played in both the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings.

Jamal thinks that although the ingredients for an uprising similar to that which happened in Tunisia and Egypt are present in Morocco, it is unlikely the monarchy will be challenged when the revolution comes.