"Feb 20's Rise and Fall: A Moroccan Story" by Ahmed Benchemsi.
Developed as part of Ahmed Benchemsi's Stanford research program, this article is the outcome of a one year-long investigation on Morocco's "Arab Spring" protest movement. It explains how and why young pro-democracy activists rocked the kingdom like never before, but were ultimately outplayed by the autocratic, wily monarchy.
Read more here: http://ahmedbenchemsi.com/feb20s-rise-and-fall-a-moroccan-story/
The article is a short version of a book chapter from “Taking to the Streets: Activism, Arab Uprisings, and Democratization”, a forthcoming collection co-edited by Lina Khatib (Stanford University) and Ellen Lust (Yale University), to be published in 2013 by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Check out Ahmed Benchemsi's blog at http://ahmedbenchemsi.com/
Developed as part of Ahmed Benchemsi's Stanford research program, this article is the outcome of a one year-long investigation on Morocco's "Arab Spring" protest movement. It explains how and why young pro-democracy activists rocked the kingdom like never before, but were ultimately outplayed by the autocratic, wily monarchy.
Read more here: http://ahmedbenchemsi.com/feb20s-rise-and-fall-a-moroccan-story/
The article is a short version of a book chapter from “Taking to the Streets: Activism, Arab Uprisings, and Democratization”, a forthcoming collection co-edited by Lina Khatib (Stanford University) and Ellen Lust (Yale University), to be published in 2013 by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Check out Ahmed Benchemsi's blog at http://ahmedbenchemsi.com/