Mohammed VI

July 20, 2023 | |

King of Morocco Invites Israeli Prime Minister to Visit 

Morocco’s King Muhammad VI invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on July 19 to visit him in Rabat. The invitation comes two days after Jerusalem announced that it recognized Morocco’s...

November 12, 2021 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The May 2021 Israel-Hamas war was a stress test for normalization

With the signing of the Abraham Accords last year, a rare sense of optimism washed over the Middle East. Many in Israel believed that these agreements signaled that the Arab world had given up on the Palestinian...

May 22, 2021 | Jonathan Schanzer, Varsha Koduvayur

Hamas violence meets Gulf silence

Excerpt Eight months since the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain shocked the world by announcing formal relations with Israel, diplomatic ties are facing their most severe test after the eruption of war...

October 10, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

BDS Morocco Attacks World-Renowned Israeli Singer in Tangier

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement activists protested the concert of international singer Noam Vazana in Tangier, Morocco, last month, and an anti-Israel protester rushed toward the stag...

April 15, 2015 | Clifford D. May

The Case For Heresy

By now, you should be familiar with the name Ayaan Hirsi Ali. You should know at least this much about her: She is brilliant, beautiful, black and she has been banned near Boston. You mi...

January 23, 2012 | |

‘Islam Is Islam, And That’s It’

The Arab Spring was not hijacked

June 22, 2011 |

Don’t Break Out the Champagne Quite Yet on the New Moroccan Constitution

Roger Kimball has beaten me to the punch in reacting to Jen Rubin’s post in praise of King Mohammed VI’s new constitution for Morocco. The constitution appears to transfer some import...

February 10, 2011 | World Defense Review

Moroccan Exceptionalism?

I recently spent nearly two weeks in North Africa, arriving just before popular demonstrations drove Tunisia's Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from power and leaving just after the protesters occupi...

January 21, 2011 | The National Interest

Tempest in Tunis

Much is being made about the role that social networking and other technologies played in the mass protests which forced Tunisia’s President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali to flee the country, end...

April 22, 2010 | The National Interest

Why Morocco Must Stay

After a nineteen year UN presence in the Western Sahara, the Security Council is about to follow Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's recommendation and vote to extend the mandate of the United N...

January 29, 2005 | Weekly Standard

The Whole Region Is Watching

What Iraq's election means for the Middle East.