On Monday, March 25, the Middle East Mediterranean campus of Sciences Po in Menton is hosting a conference on the theme: “The Evolutions of Arab Countries and the Moroccan Exception.”
For over two years, the Maghreb and the Middle East have been undergoing profound transformations. In Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Yemen, popular uprisings, elections, government changes, and the rise of fundamentalist movements are prompting questions about the evolutions in the Arab world.
Understanding how the ongoing political and constitutional changes can be sources of both concern and hope, and better understanding why Morocco stands as an exception in the region, are the main objectives of this conference, which will bring together the authors of the collective work The Moroccan Exception (Ellipses, 2013):
Najib BA MOHAMMED, Professor of Law, University of Fes, Former member of the consultative commission for the revision of the Constitution; Amine BENABDALLAH, Professor of Public Law, member of the Moroccan Constitutional Council; Thierry RAMBAUD, Professor of Public Law, University Paris Descartes and Sciences Po, expert at the Council of Europe; Frรฉdรฉric ROUVILLOIS, Professor of Public Law, University Paris Descartes; Charles SAINT-PROT, Islamologist, Director of the Observatory of Geopolitical Studies in Paris.
