“The country is in desperate need for modernization programs that ensure sustainable development and that can touch a wider, underprivileged, spectrum of the population – the benefits of which would reach further and lower, and the prime objective of which would be to ameliorate targeted social problems where intervention is much needed.”

Publication: “Dissipating Dissent: Morocco’s Stabilizing Spatial Tactics,” Jadaliyya (October 1, 2012).

Keywords: contemporary, space, infrastructure, tradition, modernization, economic, development, investment, society, movement, revolution, dissent, government, monarchy, makhzen, politics, Casablanca, Rabat, Morocco, North Africa, Arab world, Germany, European Union

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