US EditionUnlike Arab Spring, Today’s Moroccan Youth Are Demanding Dignity, Justice, and Accountability
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Born of social demands, the demonstrations of Moroccan youth quickly took on a political dimension, with explicit calls for the fall of the government of Aziz Akhannouch, observes the Moroccan sociologist Mehdi Alioua.
Behind the protests that have been shaking Morocco for five days, a new name, GenZ212. A faceless movement, appeared on Discord, which federates a young graduate, urban, connected and invents a new political grammar. While the street sembrases and the institutions remain silent, a question dominates: how far will the wave of shock go?
Unlike Arab Spring, today’s Moroccan youth are demanding dignity, justice, and accountability
“The world sees the stadiums and the TGV, but Gen Z sees the broken schools, empty hospitals, and silent courts,” explains Aboubakr Jamai, Dean of the Donna Dillon Manning School of Global Affairs at The American College of the Mediterranean. As Morocco’s unprecedented youth-led protests continue to spread in rejection of the political and socioeconomic status quo, Professor Jamai offers a sharp, historically grounded analysis of this generation…
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