The Universe in my Head

As the Pandemic COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc and take hold in the world with over 5,7million infected worldwide and nearly 360,000 fatalities as of Wednesday, May 27th, 2020, panic, chaos, and uncertainty have consumed people’s lives and governments alike in what seemingly looked like a global catastrophe.       Preventive measures, quarantine, and sanitary isolation, emergency states, lockdowns, curfews you name it, are but different coinages which simply mean that the earth is finally demanding a break.  Everyone seems to agree that once this is all over a new world order will emerge and new mapping will take place of our economy, politics, and value system, and of course a new reordering of our priorities.      As the virus continues to spread exponentially claiming many lives across the world, in such times of existential crisis the question is not solely about the quest for survival but such crises become indeed t...

In the   middle of the current religious strife and fanaticism, the fact that  the Prophet Birthday (Islam)  coincided  with Christmas( Christianity), which surprisingly takes place  every 450 years , is more than a  coincidence.  It  is rather  a vibrant message that  we are in a dire need of CO-EXISTENCE.  and that no matter how different we are, religiously, culturally, politically, we should  learn to co-exist.    

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     Education has always proved to be crucial and essential in every governmental policy in order to thrust the wheels of progress forward. Most of the world’s countries have come to realize, although some countries realized it later than others, that the only efficient way to attain substantive and fundamental progress in all domains of life is to cultivate the power of education. Every nation has been trying to make the educational system an effective enterprise to produce intellectuals, educated individuals with high academic achievements, and adequate professional expertise so as to meet the demands of the job market and eventually meet life’s requirements. Nevertheless, when a government fails to create a powerful and effective educational system, or at least reform the current defective educational system, the outcomes of such failure can be devastating. Instead of producing skillful and educated potential workers,  this corrupted educational sys...

     If there is one thing that unites the masses of Moroccan graduates of all spectrums, it is perhaps their common culture of protest and boycotting, which has robustly declared itself to be inherent of our common culture. After the tremendous stir set off by medical students who collectively and systematically rebuffed the latest decisions issued by the Ministry of Health, the plague of demonstrations has also affected the regional centers for education and training nationwide. Teacher trainees are now boycotting training in almost twenty-four training centers all over Morocco, and they are mobilizing at the grassroots level to take serious initiatives regarding their blurred future, particularly after the two nascent governmental decrees N: 588-15-2 and N: 589-15-2. The two Decrees prescribe the reduction of the scholarship allocated for teacher trainees, as well as the sequential procedures to begin a teaching career. Basically, the first decree states t...

      The title of this article is, or rather appears to be, ironic and likely upsetting for many women—let alone men. It is as if we are wondering whether to join a rebel leader to topple him out of his comfortable throne. But the truth is that there is nothing wrong about this. Patriarchy, with all its iterations, advocates for men before women insofar as the “superior” men are incongruously caught up and controlled by the very same mechanism and structure. In this structure, they systematically deploy control to maintain their dominance over women. In fact, what seems to be a socio-political system that endows men with so much supremacy, power, and privilege, is also an impeding and restrictive force that confines men’s existence and imprisons them in a series of prearranged gender roles. Most of the time, men are expected to live up to certain beliefs about what it means to be a man. Man is expected to be the incarnation of power, dominance, courag...