The Universe in my Head

     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...

 “People should not be afraid of their government, governments should be afraid of their people.” Alan Moore, V for Vendetta It is actually of little significance to know in which era you live. Whether you are in the seventies or eighties or the beginning of the millennium or 2016, the language of violence has practically been   the favourite language and the Pandora’s Box   of all Moroccan governments throughout modern history with its voice echoing throughout our modern age. The latest embodiment of the government fetishization and lust for violence is widely known on Facebook as The Massacre of Inzagane January 7 th 2016.  Poignant videos and graphic photographs going viral on social media, display the diabolical Repressive Forces violently and ruthlessly attacking teacher trainees who were preparing a peaceful march through the streets of Inzagane.  The outrageous assault yielded, hundreds of injuries ranging from bruising to far grav...