Room to breathe: Creating space for independent political action in Morocco

Middle East Report

Volumn 28, Issue 209, 1998, Pages 8-11

  Burton Rose, Daniel ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; POPULAR PROTEST;

MOROCCO;

EID: 0347608991     PISSN: 08992851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3012724     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Takfarinas, "L'Espace Associatif: Un Autre Espoir de la Societe Civile," Tasafut 17 (January 1997), p. 1
2. Interview with the author, April 1997, Rabat. This interview, as with Ahmed Adraghni, was conducted in French.
3. Omar, Ibid.
4. Omar, Ibid.
5. Interview with author, May 1997, Rabat.
6. On the excessive age of the Moroccan political elite, see: "New Democracy, Old Men," The Economist, April 5, 1997.
7. For a description of Moroccan youth and their modes of political expression, see Mounia Bennani-Chraebi, Soumis et Rebelles, les Jeunes au Maroc, (Paris: CNRS Editions, 1994).
8. Interview with the author, April 1997, Rabat.
9. Aourid, Ibid.
10. Interview with the author, April 1997, Rabat.
11. Omar, Ibid.
12. Interview with author, April 1997, Rabat.
13. On the Moroccan government's strategy of presenting itself as a fundamentalist state to undermine Islamist accusations, see Francois Bourg and William Dowell, The Islamic Movement in North Africa, (Austin: University of Texas 1993).
14. On the changing relations between the Islamists and the government, see Malika es-Saedi, "Que Se Passe-t-il l'Universite?", Jeune Afrique, Feb. 5-11, 1997.
15. Interview with the author, April 1997, Rabat.
16. Interview with the author. May 1997, Rabat.
17. This figure is out of the over 110,000 eligible Moroccans who have graduated from college since the 1980s and are not now gainfully employed.
18. Interview with Shayna Cohen, an American researcher in Morocco, May 1997, Rabat.