After years of waiting and correspondence from the victims' families, a French language teacher in Beni Tadjit has been imprisoned to serve a final sentence of three years in prison. He was convicted of sexually assaulting a number of his underage female students, despite remaining free even after the initial, appellate, and supreme court rulings upheld the sentence.
Dr. Anas Chebaatha, an otolaryngologist (ENT surgeon) in the private sector in Tangier and a member of the Moroccan coordination group Doctors for Palestine, resumed work this week after taking part in an international humanitarian mission in the Gaza Strip. Deployed there as part of a multidisciplinary medical team since June 26, he describes the humanitarian situation as unbearable. Now a direct witness to what he calls a genocide, he urges the international community to return to its
Despite a final and binding verdict sentencing a French language teacher from the Figuig region to three years in prison for assaulting five underage female students, the victims' families say the convicted individual remains at large. They have sent an open letter to the Attorney General and the Public Prosecutor at the Oujda Court of Appeal, urging the enforcement of the ruling and the delivery of justice for the victims.
Can one reclaim their language enough to use it in everyday life, despite its imperfections? Whether codified, spoken, written, oral, dialectal, or undervalued, can it truly become one’s own again when emotional, cultural, conventional, and psychosocial barriers come into play? Psychiatrist Dr. Wadih Rhondali, a specialist in psycho-oncology and neuroscience, explores these questions through the lens of his personal and professional journey between Morocco and France.
Brahim El Guabli is Associate Professor of Arabic Studies at Williams College, a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The interdisciplinary scholar, works at the intersection of several disciplinary fields, including Amazigh Studies, Arabic Studies, Francophone Studies, Memory Studies, historiography, and environmental humanities. Trained in comparative literature, the Moroccan speaks to Yabiladi about his early work «Moroccan Other-Archives: History and