This July, while interning for l’Organisation Marocaine Des Droits de l’Homme (OMDH)/Moroccan Human Rights Organization, I saw the streets of Rabat, Morocco adorned with red and green. The Moroccan national flag was displayed at every street corner, and pictures of King Mohammed VI were hung in every restaurant. The country was preparing to celebrate Throne Day, the ten-year anniversary of King Mohammed VI’s ascension to the throne. In addition...
...t party that has replaced Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, has called Turkey “a model country for us in terms of democracy,” according to the Hürriyet Daily News. It is a message that has been repeated throughout the Arab world, from Morocco, where King Mohammed VI has begun to bestow his powers on moderate Islamists, to Libya and Egypt as they navigate their democratic transition. But the Turkish model, idealized as a multi-partisan, liberal, moderately...
...rhetoric and Marxist theory. The core founders of this movement included Christians as well as Muslims, and the movement was not driven so much by uniform religious concerns as by a common identity that considered Arabs from Morocco to Iraq to be one people with a shared history, language, culture and political interest. They saw the Arab people as a civilization that had suffered from a steady but temporary decline since the Golden Age, a decli...
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