As World Cup Nears, Are Atlas Lions Ready?
People will monitor in what shape these teams’ biggest stars and main players show up, who is likely to miss the big event due to injury, lack of performance or sheer tactical choices from this or that...
View ArticleWydad’s Ship is Sinking. Can The Club Be Salvaged?
Wydad Athletic Club’s most recent loss to Union Sportive Yacoub El Mansour, the team that sits at the very bottom of the Botola’s (the Moroccan football league) standings, came as yet another shock to...
View ArticleA Contested Mandate: What the PAP Election Reveals About Institutional Fragility
At a time when Africa more than ever needs unity, coherence, and credible institutions, the recent election process within the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) raises legitimate questions—not only about...
View ArticleMohamed Abdennabaoui: The Extraordinary Journey of a Judge at the Head of...
Mohamed Abdennabaoui’s career stands as a unique model in the history of Morocco’s judicial landscape, combining extensive academic knowledge with broad field experience as he rose from the public...
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AI, Elections, and the Fragility of Rights in the Digital Age
At a recent policy conference held at the UM6P by the Policy Center for the New South and the Department of Political Affairs, Peace and Security of the African Union, I had the opportunity to join a...
View ArticleWhy Moroccan Archaeology Is a Big Deal for World Anthropology
For more than a century, anthropology has been guided by a set of assumptions about origins, innovation and geography. Chief among them is the influential “Out of Africa” model, which, while correctly...
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The Hidden Geoeconomics of Morocco–EU ties: Strategic Necessity, Silent Friction
The latest wars in the world have one thing in common; they powerfully illustrate not only the importance of AI and new military technologies like drones but also the importance of geoeconomic power...
View ArticleWhy the US Must Designate the Polisario Front as a Terrorist Organization
For decades, the Polisario Front has been a delusion that somewhat succeeded in presenting itself as a nationalist liberation movement seeking self-determination. That framing is no longer sustainable....
View ArticleHow Does It Feel to Be Like a Rolling Stone? The Cruel Wake-Up Call
Bob Dylan’s iconic 1965 song “Like a Rolling Stone” sounds like a cruel wake-up call for people who knit a coat of lies and believe it fits in the highest stage of good fashion. Every word of Dylan’s...
View ArticleThe Great Intellectual Surrender
I often find myself returning to the subject of AI, and to the striking speed with which educational institutions have rushed to adopt it. At this point, it feels less like a smooth transition and more...
View ArticleThe AFCON Dilemma: Can You Win a Match With 12 Players?
Gary Lineker once summed up football with a famous line: “Football is a simple game: 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and, in the end, the Germans always win.” He could have added something else: The...
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From Suez to Hormuz (1956–2026): Straits at the Heart of Global Geostrategic...
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, following the conflict that began on 28 February, has triggered a global systemic cascade that has impacted not only states but also the daily lives of households,...
View ArticleFIFA’s Snub of Jacques Ndala Is Tacit Vindication of Morocco in AFCON...
Washington – Jean-Jacques Ndala, the Congolese referee who officiated the chaotic AFCON 2025 final between Morocco and Senegal in Rabat, is nowhere to be found among the fifty-two referees FIFA has...
View ArticleAFCON Narrative War: Truth As the Casualty of Self-righteous Outrage
Football, in its noblest dimension, is a story: an epic of sweat and tears engraved on the altar of the green rectangle. Yet since that infamous January 18 AFCON final at the Moulay Abdellah Complex,...
View ArticleThe Bertelsmann BTI: Evaluating Morocco… or Imposing a Model?
The Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index (BTI) 2026 claims to assess countries’ progress toward democracy and a market economy. As with previous editions, the Morocco report measures the country...
View ArticleNarrative Over Facts: The Case Against Osasu Obayiuwana’s AFCON Commentary
Washington – In the early days of the ongoing judicial battle over the outcome of the 2025 AFCON final, I chose to give Osasu Obayiuwana the benefit of the doubt despite the evident bias and sloppy...
View ArticleFrom Morocco to the U.S., the Uncertain Path of Healthcare
Sporadic protests recently in Agadir and elsewhere related to hospital quality of care issues, and the reported deaths of several women during childbirth procedures, have given prominence to important...
View ArticleThe Wizard of The Kremlin — When Art Is Used for Propaganda
Cinema likes to tackle the reality of international politics, to describe, analyze, dissect and criticize political systems. This is what recently led Hollywood to adapt Giuliano Da Empoli’s...
View ArticleCacophonic Sounds in the Brave New World
There are names that are making headlines. They happen to turn their columns into both a weapon in the fight for freedom of the press—according to their vision of freedom—and—incidentally—a bargaining...
View ArticleThe Tianjin Pact: Towards a New Multipolar International Order
While the United States and Israel perpetuate global chaos in the world, China is building and constructing for its future and that of humanity. In the beginning of September in Tianjin, a city of 14...
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