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Penser le changement de l'éducation au Maroc : Interview de Nabil Belkabir, membre de l'UECSE
![[Un sit-un de l'UECSE, avec une bannière qui dit « Nous voulons étudier » en arabe. Image de la page d'UECSE sur Facebook.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2013-01-13at11.29.48PM.png "[Un sit-un de l'UECSE, avec une bannière qui dit « Nous voulons étudier » en arabe. Image de la page d'UECSE sur Facebook.]")
Trente pour cent, c’est le taux d’analphabétisme donné par les autorités au Maroc, qui est encore plus élevé chez les femmes et en milieu rural. Mais trente pour cent c’est aussi le chiffre du chômage avancé par la Banque mondiale pour les 15-29 ans (qui représentent quarante-quatre pour cent de la population en âge de travailler), alors même que la majorité d’entre eux est diplômée. Si cela traduit une faille et une inadaptation du système éducatif marocain aux réalités économiques et sociales du Maroc, les déficiences en matière de politique éducative ne font qu’aggraver les possibilités d’insertion des jeunes marocains au sein d’une société en mutation et leur ...
Keep Reading »Politics after Abdessalam Yassine
![[The coffin of Sheikh Abdessalam Yassine arrives at the cemetery in Rabat, Morocco, Friday, 14 December 2012, as many thousands of people attend the funeral marching silently through the streets of the capital. Sheikh Abdessalam Yassine, the 84-year old charismatic religious leader and founder of Morocco's largest opposition movement Adl wal Ihsan (Justice and Spirituality), and longtime opponent of two Moroccan kings, died Thursday. Yassine accused the monarchy of being corrupt and dictatorial and questioned its claim to religious legitimacy, and spent a decade under house arrest at the hands of Morocco's former ruler, King Hassan II. Photo by Abdeljalil Bounhar via AP]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2012-12-16at10.40.46AM.png "[The coffin of Sheikh Abdessalam Yassine arrives at the cemetery in Rabat, Morocco, Friday, 14 December 2012, as many thousands of people attend the funeral marching silently through the streets of the capital. Sheikh Abdessalam Yassine, the 84-year old charismatic religious leader and founder of Morocco's largest opposition movement Adl wal Ihsan (Justice and Spirituality), and longtime opponent of two Moroccan kings, died Thursday. Yassine accused the monarchy of being corrupt and dictatorial and questioned its claim to religious legitimacy, and spent a decade under house arrest at the hands of Morocco's former ruler, King Hassan II. Photo by Abdeljalil Bounhar via AP]")
Abdessalam Yassine has died. Founder and leader of the Jamaa Al Adl Wal Ihsane, Yassine - known to his followers as Sheikh Yassine - was perhaps the strongest figure in opposition to the power of the Moroccan monarchy. Yassine died early the morning of 13 December 2012, at the age of eighty-four, in his home in Salé, the working class city adjacent to Morocco’s political capital of Rabat. Political expression in Moroccan society must be understood in terms of its environment: a repressive monarchist state. Because institutional politics in the country mainly represent the political hegemony of the makhzen, the political role of social actors outside of formal ...
Keep Reading »Marrakech Event: Art Practice and Research in North Africa and the Middle East Resources and Translations (12-13 December)
![[Dar al-Ma’mûn logo. Image from dam-arts.org]](/content_images/3/sm_daralmamunweb.jpg "[Dar al-Ma’mûn logo. Image from dam-arts.org]")
Art Practice and Research in North Africa and the Middle East Resources and Translations 12 & 13 December 2012 Dar al-Ma’mûn, Marrakech In collaboration with the National Institute of Art History (INHA, Paris), the residency center for artists and translators Dar al-Ma’mûn will host a symposium in Marrakech under the title Artistic Practice and Research in the Maghreb and the Middle East: Resources and Translations. The symposium is convened by Omar Berrada (Dar al-Ma’mûn) and Zahia Rahmani (INHA) with contributions from Sam Bardaouil, Omezine Benchikha, Ali Benmakhlouf, Hassan Darsi, Amine El Gotaibi, Ayoub El Mouzaine, Simohammed ...
Keep Reading »From Opposition to Puppet: Morocco’s Party of Justice and Development
![[PJD party leaders celebrate their win in Morocco's legislative elections. Image by Magharebia/Flickr.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2012-11-23at9.35.12PM.png "[PJD party leaders celebrate their win in Morocco's legislative elections. Image by Magharebia/Flickr.]")
A protest repressed, a journalist beaten, an artist detained, a newspaper censored, and an activist tortured. Sixteen months after what was hailed as a “landmark” constitutional referendum, and exactly one year after a new government was elected, like a broken record, headlines from Morocco continue to repeat themselves. When the announcement for the 25 November 2011 parliamentary elections was made, the February 20th Movement and its supporters quickly agreed to boycott––a decision rooted in the prediction that the elections would bring about no real change. A year after the elections that gave the Party of Justice and Development (PJD) a majority win, the “path of ...
Keep Reading »Plurality, Hybridity, and the Self: A Review of Benjamin Stora's "Voyages en postcolonies"
Benjamin Stora, Voyages en postcolonies. Paris : Stock, 2012. Si je dis “L'Algérie est un pays musulman,” on m'accuse de faire le jeu des intégristes. Si je dis “L'Algérie n'est qu'un pays républicain,” on me rétorquera qu'il ne faut pas oublier qu'elle est un pays musulman. La France fonctionnne par images fixes, alors que l'Algérie échappe aux définintions simples. Une sorte de mixité, de métissage, de pluralité, de circulation sur fond d'héritages multiples a modelé le pays. If I say "Algeria is a Muslim country," I get accused of supporting (Islamic) integrism. If I say "Algeria is a republican country," I'm told that you ...
Keep Reading »Chomsky on the Western Sahara and the “Arab Spring”
![[An image of the aftermath of the October 2010 protests in Gdeim Izik. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2012-10-30at1.39.23PM.png "[An image of the aftermath of the October 2010 protests in Gdeim Izik. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]")
One of the most significant consequences of the term “Arab Spring” has been the evocation of a constructed timeline that placed the protests in the North Africa and the Middle East within a limited spectrum of time and space. The desire to enforce problematic nominal labels produces a narrative that shapes the way certain events are understood and discussed. The result is the acceptance of what is or is not considered legitimate dissent and the denial or reduction of historically embedded forces that continue to shape realities in the Middle East and North Africa. Since last year, Noam Chomsky has argued that the so-called “Arab Spring” did not begin in Tunisia, ...
Keep Reading »October Culture
![[A Butterfly in New York City. Image from Sinan Antoon]](/content_images/3/sm_Butterfly.jpg "[A Butterfly in New York City. Image from Sinan Antoon]")
Jadaliyya's October culture bouquet features: Marilyn Hacker translates Five Poems by Rachida Madani. Maymanah Farhat introduces Helen Zughaib's "Stories My Father Told Me." Mai Serhan writes on "Huda Lutfi: The Artist and the Historical Moment". Andre Naffis-Sahley translates "Glory to Those Who Torture Us" a poem by Abdellatif Laabi. All previous culture posts can be accessed here. To contribute, comment, or complain: culture@jadaliyya.com
Keep Reading »Five Poems by Rachida Madani
![[Rachida Madani at a Reading. Image from Author]](/content_images/3/sm_Rachida.png "[Rachida Madani at a Reading. Image from Author]")
TALES OF A SEVERED HEAD Rachida Madani Translated by Marilyn Hacker The First Tale I What city and what night since it’s night in the city when a woman and a train-station argue over the same half of a man who is leaving? He is young, handsome he is leaving for a piece of white bread. She is young, beautiful as a springtime cluster trying to flower for the last time for her man who is leaving. But the train arrives but the branch breaks but suddenly it’s raining in the station in the midst of spring. And the train emerges from all directions It whistles and goes right through the woman the whole length of her. Where the woman bleeds, there ...
Keep Reading »Yes, Morocco is a Regional Model
![[Goats on an Argan tree near Taroudannt, Morocco. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2012-10-15at10.40.13AM.png "[Goats on an Argan tree near Taroudannt, Morocco. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]")
Every month or so, mainstream commentators and analysts make the bold decision to publish an article on Morocco. The obscure nature of Morocco’s experience of the regional uprising has made it a difficult case to grasp for some. Unlike its neighbors, Morocco has slipped through the “Arab Spring” formula of popular protest movement > violence > dictator overthrown. To avoid steering away from binaries and into the sea of nuances, it is important to stick to basic approaches. However, in an effort to save writers, editors, and readers time, I would like to reassure everyone once and for all: YES, Morocco, the country ruled by King Mohammed VI, is the model for the ...
Keep Reading »Notes on Inequalities in Autism Activism and Care in Morocco
![[Image by Jesse Neider/Farzyat.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2012-09-16at7.22.40PM.png "[Image by Jesse Neider/Farzyat.]")
“Autistic,” “Crazy,” and Other Conflicting Categories We typically think of autism activism as awareness raising or political lobbying. These are no doubt important aspects of it, and my Moroccan friends spend much time engaged in such work. But more than anything, autism activism in Morocco is a project in world-making, an attempt to create novel spaces and institutions for – as well as to cultivate new dispositions toward – people who might otherwise be considered crazy (ḥemmaq), retarded (met’akhkhar), or possessed (mejnun). In other words, it is an attempt to create worlds where certain marginalized people can thrive and experience a measure of belonging. Such ...
Keep Reading »'Arab Spring,' Moroccan Winter
![[An image taken at a February 20th Movement protest in Bab El Had, Rabat on 22 July 2012. Image by author.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2012-09-09at10.01.07AM.png "[An image taken at a February 20th Movement protest in Bab El Had, Rabat on 22 July 2012. Image by author.]")
Recent analyses of the Middle East and North Africa indicate that the countries in the region are entering a “third phase” of the Arab Spring. The first phase was characterized by the massive mobilization of the “street,” and the second phase by elections and emergent political organization; this third phase will require governments to overcome the social and economic challenges that continue to plague the region. While the Moroccan case does not conform to this tidy account of political disarticulation (despite having elections last November, there were never calls for outright revolution), Morocco will also be entering this “third phase,” facing the same ...
Keep Reading »An Account from Young Moroccan Political Prisoners: Rape and Torture in Police Custody
![[A collage of the six Moroccan activists charged for belonging to the February 20th Movement. Image from Mamfakinch.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2012-07-27at2.11.26PM.png "[A collage of the six Moroccan activists charged for belonging to the February 20th Movement. Image from Mamfakinch.]")
[The following report was originally published in French on Mamfakinch on 2 September 2012. It was subsequently translated into English. Both the English translation and original French version appear below.] Following the 22 July protest against the high cost of living and the increase in prices, which was violently repressed and disbursed by riot police, six activists from the February 20th Movement were arrested. Their names are Samir Bradelly, Abderrahman Assal, Tarek Rouchdi, Youssef Oubella, Nour Essalam Kartachi, and Keep Reading »
La somme de tous les rêves brisés d'Anfgou et d'ailleurs
Qui mieux qu’un misérable saurait narrer la tragédie qui frappe les siens ? Et comment raconter aux autres l’indicible horreur, lorsqu’à la tragédie s’ajoute la barrière de la langue ? Pour ce qui nous concerne, tout ce que nous pourrions jamais décrire de la noirceur de cette misère-là, de la morsure du froid, de l’insupportable enclavement ou de la mort du nourrisson, ne vaudra pas tripette, tant la tâche est insurmontable. Tout commence au bord d’une route incertaine. ...
Keep Reading »Art, Politics, and Critical Citizenry in Morocco: An Interview with Driss Ksikes
Driss Ksikes’ presence in Morocco is not one that is easily captured by static titles. He is at once an artist, an academic, a journalist, and an activist. However, it is his ability to transcend the rigidity of any one of these roles that has allowed him to evade stereotypes. Both his artistic and political activities have also played a hand in inspiring him as director of the Centre d’Etudes Sociales, Economiques et Managériales (CESEM). Perhaps his best descriptor is the one he has used to describe ...
Keep Reading »Signs of New Feminism? Promises of Morocco's February 20
The absence of established figures from feminist organizations is one of the most striking features of the 20 February movement in Morocco. Nevertheless, the movement shows modes of engagement with feminism, such as the call for gender equality and a practice of parity, which suggest that feminist discourse has not only penetrated the social imaginary of younger generations of activists, but also informed their practices. Signs of new gender arrangements were already visible in the first calls for ...
Keep Reading »Lonely Servitude: Child Domestic Labor in Morocco
[The following report was issued by Human Rights Watch on 15 November 2012.] Lonely Servitude: Child Domestic Labor in Morocco Executive Summary Latifa L. was twelve years old when she began working as a domestic worker in Casablanca, Morocco’s largest city. She said she was “really scared,” but a recruiter reassured her that her future employers “would be very kind” and would pay her well. It turned out to be an empty promise. Once in Casablanca—a five-hour bus journey from ...
Keep Reading »Du « péril noir » au Maroc
La récente publication du numéro 998 de Maroc Hebdo, dont la première page titre « Le péril noir », a déclenché une vive polémique au Maroc et sur la toile. Si elle met à jour une réalité bien souvent tue, elle surprend aussi un pays qui a récemment affirmé son « unité forgée par la convergence de ses composantes arabo-islamique, amazighe et saharo-hassanie (…) nourrie et enrichie de ses affluents africain, andalou, hébraïque et méditerranéen. »[1] Une publication à resituer ...
Keep Reading »Des trucs, des machins et des choses
J’ai regardé, comme vous cette vidéo édifiante, enregistrée ce lundi 17 septembre, lorsqu’au matin, avait eu lieu une invasion de fonctionnaires, au voisinage immédiat de Ali Lmrabet, celui que le régime a pensé condamner au silence en l’emprisonnant et le condamnant à une interdiction d’exercice de son métier de journaliste, pour dix ans. Les fonctionnaires qui arpentent consciencieusement la terrasse voisine, scrutent chaque mètre carré et semblent mémoriser d’occultes détails, ...
Keep Reading »Glory to Those Who Torture Us
Glory to Those Who Torture Us Abdellatif Laâbi Translated by André Naffis-Sahely glory glory we are the chosen people erected upon the peaks of fate for us the tomorrows that sing rivers of honey and milk sacrifice brothers sacrifice exile in sacrifice o the apotheosis of throats ready heritage Abraham’s sadism crimes on the table heritage faith struck down by miracles the desert’s spontaneous abundance miracle we do not suffer o the hired killer’s unblemished brow the tickling of ...
Keep Reading »Averting a Moroccan Revolution: The Monarchy's Preemptive Spatial Tactics and the Quest for Stability
[The following report was issued by the German Institute for International and Security Affairs on 30 September 2012. An article form of the analysis of this report was recently published on Jadaliyya and can be accessed by clicking here.] Averting a Moroccan Revolution: The Monarchy's Preemptive Spatial Tactics Summary Morocco is often seen as the exception to the “Arab Spring”. The country’s socio-political profile suggested that it was only a matter of time for the disgruntled ...
Keep Reading »Dissipating Dissent: Morocco's Stabilizing Spatial Tactics
When considering the wave of uprisings that swept the Arab world recently, otherwise known as the “Arab Spring,” Morocco is often perceived as the exception to the rule. The country’s socio-political profile led many to believe that it was only a matter of time for the disgruntled masses to take to the streets and bring down another regime that has monopolized governance for decades and on whom the country’s ills can be blamed. Morocco has survived the unrest, however, and its leadership seems to be as ...
Keep Reading »J'ai vu condamner des innocents
Le sentiment déchirant de ne pouvoir rien d’autre faire qu’apporter un témoignage sur une injustice en plus. Samir Bradley, Tariq Rochdi, Abderrahman Assal ont été condamnés à 10 mois ferme. Youssef Oubella, Nour Essalam Kartachi ont été condamnés à 8 mois ferme. Laila Nassimi à 6 mois avec sursis. Samir, Tariq, Abderrahman, Youssef, Nour Essalam et Laila sont des innocents. Je le sais parce que j’y étais. Beaucoup de gens le savent, tous savent que leurs procès ...
Keep Reading »صور من كاميرا
هنا، في هذه المنطقة، في خضم الحماس الأوّلي، المؤكّد، الدائم. الذي يضع أجسادنا في اضطراب دائم (ومرحّب به)؛ من هذه اللحظات التي تتنوّع ما بين الحيرة، والخيبة، والنشوة، والرهبة، والإلهام ــ من هذه اللحظات فصاعداً، سنرى أنفسنا معروضين ونتخلّص من متاحف التقادم. وفي محاولة النهوض المطلقة الصدق، يعاد تشكيلنا بفرادة. كيف نعوّض عن كلّ الساعات والسنوات والعقود التي ضاعت ونحن ننظر إلى حيواتنا عبر عدسة ،مستقبل نرثه باستمرار (غير معروف، لكنه ممكن ــ المستقبل ــ يا له من تطلعّ بسيط، ولكن يقمعه بوحشية القمع التسلطيّ ...
Keep Reading »Moroccan State Propaganda and the Western Saharan Conflict
On the first day of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights’ visit to the Western Sahara “to assess the human-rights situation in both Western Sahara and the Algerian refugee camps where displaced Sahrawi live,” Kerry Kennedy, the president of the center, gave an account for the Huffington Post. Her piece details a crude encounter with the DST (Moroccan intelligence services) after her delegation witnessed DST officers brutalizing a peacefully protesting Sahrawi woman. Plain-clothed ...
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