A Moroccan Voice

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037263254092526912012-02-16T23:37:43.217ZA Moroccan VoiceJamal Elabiadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609236499720487448noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125AMoroccanVoicehttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503726325409252691.post-34010513251985165092012-02-14T14:47:00.000Z2012-02-14T14:47:04.898Z2012-02-14T14:47:04.898ZWhat about the Videos that Remind Moroccans of the Years of Lead?

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Jamal Elabiadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609236499720487448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503726325409252691.post-86634672289943871392012-02-10T23:25:00.000Z2012-02-10T23:25:12.192Z2012-02-10T23:25:12.192ZIf She were in a Democratic State...!

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Jamal Elabiadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609236499720487448noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503726325409252691.post-56657044034849016962012-02-01T09:37:00.000Z2012-02-01T09:37:13.950Z2012-02-01T09:37:13.950ZOn Moroccan Bouazizis

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Jamal Elabiadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609236499720487448noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503726325409252691.post-91766388366942506072011-11-24T15:28:00.001Z2012-01-28T00:23:35.830Z2012-01-28T00:23:35.830ZWhy I Will Not Vote on Nov. 25?

By Jamal Elabiad Like many Moroccans, I will boycott the upcoming Moroccan legislative elections which were scheduled for November 25. Many reasons lie behind my decision, the most important of which are the focal point of this article. Nothing has been changed as far as the measures Moroccan political parties rely on in order to choose the candidates that will represent them around

Jamal Elabiadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609236499720487448noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503726325409252691.post-78783177769098042632011-11-05T10:17:00.000Z2012-01-28T00:24:53.955Z2012-01-28T00:24:53.955ZWhy I Wanted Ghaddafi Alive?

By Jamal Elabiad “Ghaddafi could have chosen a different ending.” wrote a New York Times’ editor. I expected that Muammar Ghaddafi would have a terrible ending when he ignored all his allies’ offers on how to step down, but I it never came to mind that Muammar Ghaddafi would be captured and shot to death by the rebels. My expectation of Ghaddafi’s ending was that he would be arrested and

Jamal Elabiadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609236499720487448noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503726325409252691.post-38448584546618744702011-09-21T16:12:00.000Z2012-01-28T00:26:08.627Z2012-01-28T00:26:08.627ZWhy I Support the Movement?

By Jamal Elabiad My plan for this summer holidays was to spend ten days or so in Nador, a northeastern Moroccan city. But I postponed that for several reasons. One is that I wanted to spend my whole summer vacation with the Feb. 20 movement. I attended roughly all its activities from protest marches to sit-ins. There are many reasons why I joined the movement’s protests and became one of its

Jamal Elabiadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609236499720487448noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503726325409252691.post-27128939155804809522011-08-21T02:56:00.002Z2012-01-28T00:26:38.442Z2012-01-28T00:26:38.442ZHe Has a Dream

By Jamal Elabiad A week after Moroccans voted in favour of the constitutional reforms King Mohamed IV unveiled in his June 17th speech, one of my family members was rushed to the state hospital in a taxi due to a sharp pain he felt in his kidneys. After asking him a few a questions about his disease, the doctor gave him a prescription. One of the medicines the doctor prescribed for my

Jamal Elabiadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609236499720487448noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503726325409252691.post-41533285016466979952011-07-30T00:41:00.004+01:002011-11-05T17:03:15.458Z2011-11-05T17:03:15.458ZA Young Moroccan Immigrant in the US Speaks to A Moroccan Voice

By Jamal Elabiad Different reasons lie behind the emigration of a large number of Moroccans to Europe and America. Recently, A Moroccan Voice had the chance to conduct an e-mail interview with a young Moroccan immigrant in the United States. More details on the immigrant and why he decided to immigrate to America are in the following interview. A Moroccan Voice: Could you please tell our

Jamal Elabiadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609236499720487448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503726325409252691.post-46486414198698187062011-07-15T11:28:00.002+01:002011-11-05T17:07:25.905Z2011-11-05T17:07:25.905ZOn a CCP Video

By Jamal Elabiad Triviality is the word that came to my mind soon after I finished watching a four-minute video on Connecting Classrooms Project (CCP). Several students were videotaped talking about the project’s benefits such as new vocabulary items, reading and computer skills, and pronunciation. The rationale behind downloading the video was to know what those students learnt while

Jamal Elabiadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609236499720487448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503726325409252691.post-90059327174647099132011-06-14T18:46:00.003+01:002011-11-05T15:13:48.945Z2011-11-05T15:13:48.945ZHow the New Regime Resembles the Old One?

By Jamal Elabiad There is no difference between the new regime and the old one when it comes to human rights abuses. This is the conclusion many Moroccans (me included) came to soon after watching videos on how peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations have been violently dispersed by anti-riot police in many Moroccan cities, including Casablanca, Fez, and Agadir. The four videos below are just

Jamal Elabiadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609236499720487448noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503726325409252691.post-27148512638079555932011-06-14T18:02:00.002+01:002011-11-05T15:14:22.953Z2011-11-05T15:14:22.953ZToo Much Noise for Nothing

By Jamal Elabiad Most Moroccans received with relief the reforms king Mohamed VI promised to bring about in his speech delivered after Moroccans took to the streets to call for profound political reforms. But what happened on March 13, May15, and May 22 contradicted the king's promises of reforms. The common denominator between those dates is the fact that Moroccan authorities suppressed

Jamal Elabiadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609236499720487448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503726325409252691.post-8940178137796047612011-06-03T00:21:00.002+01:002011-11-05T15:14:48.960Z2011-11-05T15:14:48.960ZHe Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune

By Jamal Elabiad In Morocco, many opponents of the regime have turned their coats as soon as they were appointed ministers or directors of state administrations. By this I mean that their attitudes were against the Moroccan regime, but they started to toe the Moroccan regime’s line immediately after becoming senior officials of the state. For instance, when they were Comrades, they

Jamal Elabiadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609236499720487448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503726325409252691.post-54831946436833624992011-05-19T12:54:00.003+01:002011-05-19T13:02:25.652+01:002011-05-19T13:02:25.652+01:00Victims of a Ministry Decision

By Jamal ElabiadWhen I was a university student, my belief was that employments in Morocco are reserved only for the brightest students. And this is why I did my best to excel at my university studies so as to get employed soon after I got my first cycle certificate (or DEUG). After working six years as middle school teacher of English, I discovered, like many others, I was naïve to believe that

Jamal Elabiadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609236499720487448noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503726325409252691.post-69692679561596889082011-05-11T11:39:00.002+01:002011-05-11T11:56:06.858+01:002011-05-11T11:56:06.858+01:00The Real Reasons Behind the Arrest of a Newspaper Director

By Jamal ElabiadThe articles Rachid Nini every day publishes in Al Massae pose a major threat to national security. This was among the charges the Moroccan judiciary directed against Rachid Nini, the director of the Moroccan daily and independent newspaper Al Massae.I do add my voice to a Moroccan lawyer and human rights activist who said that Rachid Nini’s arrest was a political decision. In

Jamal Elabiadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609236499720487448noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503726325409252691.post-376825964822584682011-05-07T17:48:00.004+01:002011-05-07T18:25:12.749+01:002011-05-07T18:25:12.749+01:00Pardoning Political Prisoners is Insufficient

By Jamal ElabiadThe fruits Moroccans have reaped from the February 20 movement are countless. An example in point was the royal pardon for scores of political prisoners, including Mustapha Mouatassim, Mohammed Marouani, Mohammed Amine Regala, Alaa Badella Maa-El Ainin and Abdelhafid Sriti. Needless to say, many other political prisoners are still in jail, and nobody knows why they were excluded

Jamal Elabiadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609236499720487448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503726325409252691.post-1649322667245763622011-04-06T14:36:00.003+01:002011-04-06T15:34:48.294+01:002011-04-06T15:34:48.294+01:00On the King’s Recent Speech

By Jamal ElabiadOne of the latest articles I have written was about the changes that would take place after Moroccans took to the streets to call for deep political reforms.The recent speech of king Mohamed VI not only confirmed the conclusions I came to in the article, but it also put the lie to all the accusations that were directed against the February 20 movement, such as the movement wants

Jamal Elabiadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609236499720487448noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503726325409252691.post-10434564978520416742011-03-01T10:28:00.003Z2011-03-01T10:36:39.879Z2011-03-01T10:36:39.879ZThe Unasked Question

By Jamal ElabiadWhat the Zagora delegation of the ministry of education did when it received a copy of the petition from the teacher’s colleagues? This is among the questions I expected my blog readers to ask me to give more details on soon after I posted my article on the teacher who decided to boycott my blog simply because my article on CCP deeply enraged him. I was, however, shocked to know

Jamal Elabiadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609236499720487448noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503726325409252691.post-1806995940702189912011-02-11T23:29:00.006Z2011-02-19T11:05:35.347Z2011-02-19T11:05:35.347ZWhat Will Happen if Moroccans Take to the Streets?

By Jamal ElabiadWhat will happen if Moroccans take to the streets to call for political change? I asked myself this question while watching on Al Jazeera and other TV channels what is happening in Egypt and what happened in Tunisia two weeks ago. The Tunisians managed to overthrow the twenty-three-year-rule of their president, and the Egyptians are on the verge of doing the same after more than

Jamal Elabiadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609236499720487448noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503726325409252691.post-41380090300704410162011-02-06T20:32:00.004Z2011-02-06T20:43:50.379Z2011-02-06T20:43:50.379ZA New Access Program in Zagora

By Jamal ElabiadRecently, many teachers of English in Zagora sent me e-mails asking why RELO directress Andrea Schindler visited the city on January16th, 2011. My reply was "I don't know!", but I promised to do my best to provide them with the reason behind her visit the soonest possible.Soon after I finished writing an article on what will happen if the revolution comes to Morocco, I started

Jamal Elabiadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609236499720487448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503726325409252691.post-81613299726641862832011-01-22T22:18:00.003Z2011-01-22T22:37:45.347Z2011-01-22T22:37:45.347ZThe Real Reasons Behind the Arrest of WikiLeaks Founder

By Jamal Elabiad“Good news” commented US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by British police on a European warrant issued by Sweden for rape charges.The idea that came to mind soon after I learned about Julian Assange’s arrest was that the United States and its allies have once again tried to mislead the world when they claimed that the rationale

Jamal Elabiadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609236499720487448noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503726325409252691.post-10925261890301702482011-01-11T10:43:00.005Z2011-01-11T12:14:40.596Z2011-01-11T12:14:40.596ZIn Response to a Teacher’s E-mail

By Jamal ElabiadNobody can deny the fact that it’s readers’ feedback and comments that motivate bloggers to keep writing, and that a blogger whose posts receive no comments is likely to give up writing. I know many bloggers who stopped writing simply because almost nobody responded to their blog posts. I was aware of the fact that it is readers’ feedback that guarantees the continuity of a Web

Jamal Elabiadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609236499720487448noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503726325409252691.post-89686333884246081192011-01-01T11:35:00.003Z2011-01-01T12:13:34.992Z2011-01-01T12:13:34.992ZInterview with a Young Moroccan Writer

By Jamal ElabiadOmar BIHMIDINE is the writer of a large number of poems, short stories, and articles. A Moroccan Voice had recently the opportunity to ask him a number of questions about his story with writing. Shedding light on personal experiences and giving voice to the voiceless are the common denominators between Omar BIHMIDINE’s writings, particularly articles and short stories. More

Jamal Elabiadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16609236499720487448noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503726325409252691.post-30482086498470413032010-12-21T11:14:00.003Z2010-12-21T13:01:49.563Z2010-12-21T13:01:49.563ZOn Closing Al Jazeera’s Office in Morocco

By Jamal ElabiadThe Moroccan government eventually did what it had been contemplating doing for years: closing the office of Al Jazeera in Rabat. There are many reasons behind the closure of the channel’s office, but the most important one is that the Doha-based channel, according to the Moroccan Communications Minister Khalid Naciri, is pro-the Polisario Front. If you ask Khlaid Naciri or any

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