Morocco’s experience with Islamists sets it apart from its neighbours. While Egypt and Tunisia have resorted to military and constitutional means to remove Islamists from power, Morocco’s moderate Islamist party, the PJD, were removed by the country’s citizens through the ballot box, without any direct intervention by the monarchy.
Many countries across the Middle East and North Africa, or MENA, region have faced critical challenges in ensuring the effective and equitable vaccination of their citizens against COVID-19. With a few exceptions, like Morocco, Israel and several Gulf states, countries in the region have faced difficulties in securing sufficient doses due to logistical constraints, poor planning and vaccine hesitancy.
Covid-19 in the Middle East: Regional Impact and Future Recovery
SANA Expert Briefing series—Webinar 4: Morocco's Foreign Policy
Vaccine diplomacy and the geopolitics of influence
Yasmina Abouzzohour : “Pour le Maroc, le rapprochement dans le Golfe aura surtout des bénéfices économiques”
Morocco is the clearest winner, and Algeria may be open to a rapprochement.
With Regulating Islam in Morocco and Tunisia, Sarah J. Feuer provides a critical analysis of religious regulation in Morocco and Tunisia and explicitly pinpoints policies on religious education as fundamental to understanding political structures and key events within the histories of each regime.
