50 Notable alumni of
Mohammed V University
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Mohammed V University is 811th in the world, 19th in Africa, and 1st in Morocco by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 50 notable alumni from Mohammed V University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Mohammed
- Enrolled in Mohammed V University
- In 1985 graduated with Licentiate in law
- Occupations
- kingmonarch
- Biography
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Mohammed VI is King of Morocco. A member of the 'Alawi dynasty, he acceded to the throne on 23 July 1999, upon the death of his father, King Hassan II.
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Tahar Ben Jelloun
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Tahar Ben Jelloun is a Moroccan writer. All of his work is written in French although his first language is Darija. He became known for his 1985 novel L’Enfant de Sable (The Sand Child). He now lives in Paris, France, and continues to write. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco
- Occupations
- entrepreneurdiplomat
- Biography
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Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco, also known as Prince Moulay Rachid ben al-Hassan, is a member of the Alawi dynasty. He was the youngest child of the late King Hassan II and his wife, Lalla Latifa. He holds a doctorate in international politics. He is currently second in the line of succession to the Moroccan throne.
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Abdelilah Benkirane
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Abdelilah Benkirane is a Moroccan politician who was Prime Minister of Morocco from November 2011 to March 2017. After having won a plurality of seats in the 2011 parliamentary election, his party, the moderate Islamist Justice and Development Party formed a coalition with three parties that had been part of previous governments.
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Nasser Bourita
- Enrolled in Mohammed V University
- In 1991 graduated with Licentiate in public law
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Nasser Bourita is a Moroccan diplomat serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates since 5 April 2017.
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Nabila Mounib
- Occupations
- physicianpoliticianprofessor
- Biography
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Nabila Mounib is a Moroccan politician who currently serves as the General Secretary of the Unified Socialist Party (PSU). She is the first woman to be elected head of a Moroccan party.
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Mohamed Abdelaziz
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mohamed Abdelaziz was the 3rd Secretary General of the Polisario Front, from 1976, and the 1st President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic from 1982, until his death in 2016.
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Fouad Ali El Himma
- Enrolled in Mohammed V University
- In 1986 graduated with Licentiate in law
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Fouad Ali El Himma is a Moroccan politician and senior advisor for Mohammed VI of whom he is said to be a very close friend. Since he became Secretary of State in the Ministry of the Interior in November 1999, he has played a prominent role in the Moroccan State. In 2008, he founded the Authenticity and Modernity Party. El
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El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed
- Years
- 1948-1976 (aged 28)
- Occupations
- politicianherder
- Biography
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El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed was a Sahrawi nationalist leader, co-founder and second Secretary-General of the Polisario Front.
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Taha Abdurrahman
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterphilosopher
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Taha Abderrahmane, is a Moroccan philosopher, and one of the leading philosophers and thinkers in the Arab and Islamic worlds. His work centers on logic, philosophy of language and philosophy of morality and contractarian ethics. He believes in multiple modernities and seeks to establish an ethical and humanitarian modernity based on the values and principles of Islam and the Arab tradition.
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Laila Lalami
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterlinguistjournalistessayist
- Biography
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Laila Lalami is a Moroccan-American novelist, essayist, and professor. After earning her licence ès lettres degree in Morocco, she received a fellowship to study in the United Kingdom (UK), where she earned an MA in linguistics.
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Abbas El Fassi
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Abbas El Fassi is a Moroccan politician and businessman, prime minister of Morocco from 19 September 2007 to 29 November 2011. El Fassi, a member of the Istiqlal Party, replaced independent Driss Jettou.
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Driss Jettou
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Driss Jettou is a Moroccan politician, who served as the Prime Minister of Morocco from 2002 to 2007.
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Abdellah Taïa
- Occupations
- journalistfilm directornovelistscreenwriter
- Biography
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Abdellah Taïa is a Moroccan writer and filmmaker who writes in the French language and has been based in Paris since 1999. He has published eight novels, many of them heavily autobiographical. His books have been translated into Basque, Dutch, German, English, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Danish and Arabic.
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Nizar Baraka
- Enrolled in Mohammed V University
- In 1985 graduated with econometrics
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nizar Baraka is a Moroccan politician and businessman of the Istiqlal Party. He is the grandson of nationalist Allal Al Fassi.
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Mohammed Ziane
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Mohammed Ziane is a Moroccan lawyer and politician who is currently imprisoned in the El Arjat Penitentiary in Salé. He was the Bâtonnier of the Moroccan Bar Association, an MP for the Constitutional Party during the 80s until 1995 and served as Minister-Delegate for Human Rights between 1996 and 1997. In 2001, he founded the Moroccan Liberal Party, and served as its National Coordinator ever since. In February 2022, following a clash with Abdellatif Hammouchi, a close associate of the King Mohammed VI, and the Director of the Moroccan Police and head of the Moroccan internal intelligence agency, DGST, he was sentenced to three years in prison on a number of charges which included defying emergency health orders for the COVID-19 pandemic, sexual harassment accusations, diffusing accusations against a woman because of her gender, in addition to diffusing disrespectful declarations against Abdellatif Hammouchi personally, and against Moroccan state's administration and judiciary. The execution of the sentence was suspended by appeal, but was carried out on 21 November 2022, when it was confirmed by a court of appeal.
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Ahmed Raïssouni
- Occupations
- Islamic jurist'ālim
- Biography
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Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Raïssouni is a Moroccan Islamic scholar and jurist. He served as president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) until his retirement in 2022. He was the former head of the Movement of Unity and Reform (MUR), an organization closely linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Moroccan Justice and Development Party.
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Mohamed El Ouafa
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Mohamed El Ouafa was a Moroccan diplomat and politician of the Istiqlal Party.
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Zoulikha Nasri
- Occupations
- politicianjurist
- Biography
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Zoulikha Nasri was a Moroccan politician. She was an advisor to King Mohammed VI and managing director of the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity. She was Morocco's first female royal advisor.
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Rachid Talbi Alami
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Rachid Talbi Alami is a Moroccan politician of the National Rally of Independents party who is the President (Speaker) of the House of Representatives of Morocco since 2021. He was elected representative of Tetouan in the 2021 general election.
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Omar Hilale
- Enrolled in Mohammed V University
- In 1974 graduated with Licentiate in political science
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Omar Hilale is a Moroccan career diplomat. He has been Morocco's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York since he was appointed in this position in April 2014. He used to be the permanent representative of Morocco to the UN in Geneva.
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Driss Lachgar
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Driss Lachgar is a Moroccan politician of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP) party. Between 2010 and 2012, he held the position of Minister of Relations with the Parliament in the cabinet of Abbas El Fassi.
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Yasmina Baddou
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Yasmina Baddou is a Moroccan politician of the Istiqlal party. Between 2007 and 2012, she held the position of Minister of Health in the cabinet of Abbas El Fassi, and she was Secretary of State for Family Affairs in the cabinet Driss Jettou.
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Mohamed Ouzzine
- Occupations
- linguistpoliticiansociologist
- Biography
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Mohamed Ouzzine is a Moroccan politician of the Popular Movement. He was the Minister of Youth and Sports in Abdelilah Benkirane's government from 2012 to 2015. Previously he was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2012. He holds a degree in sociolinguistics.
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Mohammed Bennis
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Mohammed Bennis is a Moroccan poet and one of the most prominent writers of modern Arabic poetry. Since the 1970s, he has enjoyed a particular status within Arab culture. Muhsin J al-Musawi states that "Bennis’ articulations tend to validate his poetry in the first place, to encapsulate the overlapping and contestation of genres in a dialectic, that takes into account power politics whose tropes are special. As a discursive threshold between Arab East and the Moroccan West, tradition and modernity, and also a site of contestation and configuration, Muhammad Bennis' self-justifications may reveal another poetic predilection, too."
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Abdelhadi Tazi
- Occupations
- diplomathistorianwriterpoliticianessayist
- Biography
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Abdelhadi Tazi was a scholar, writer, historian and former Moroccan ambassador in various countries.
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Ahmed Benchemsi
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Ahmed Reda Benchemsi is a Moroccan journalist. He is the founder and was the publisher and editor of TelQuel and Nichane magazines.
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Mohammed Berrada
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teacherarabistliterary scholarnon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Mohammed Berrada, also transliterated Muhammad Baradah (born 1938 in Rabat) is a Moroccan novelist, literary critic and translator writing in Arabic. He is considered one of Morocco's most important modern authors.
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Rafik Abdessalem
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Rafik Bouchlaka is a Tunisian politician. He served as the minister of foreign affairs under Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali.
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Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerjurist
- Biography
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Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri is a Moroccan lawyer and politician of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), and currently the mayor of Marrakesh as well as the Minister of National Planning, Urban Planning, Housing and Urban Policy.
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Fadel Benyaich
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Fadel Benyaich or Benaich is a senior member of the royal cabinet of King Mohammed VI, reportedly in charge of relations with Spain. He studied at the Collège Royal with Mohammed VI.
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Amina Bouayach
- Occupations
- activistpolitician
- Biography
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Amina Bouayach is a Moroccan human rights activist. Since December 2018, Bouayach has served as the president of the Moroccan National Human Rights Council. In this role, she affirmed in 2019 that there are no "political prisoners in Morocco."
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Mohammed Achaari
- Occupations
- journalistpoliticianpoet
- Biography
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Mohammed Achaari is a Moroccan writer and politician.
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Fathallah Oualalou
- Occupations
- economistinternational forum participantpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Fathallah Oualalou is a Moroccan politician. He was the mayor of Rabat from 2009 to 2015. He was the Minister of Economy and Finance of Morocco between March 1998 and October 2007. He is a member of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces party (USFP).
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Youssef Amrani
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Youssef Amrani is a Moroccan diplomat and politician of the Istiqlal Party. Since October 2021, Amrani has served as the Moroccan ambassador to the European Union. He has previously held positions as Morocco's ambassador to South Africa, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. He also held the position as the Delegate-Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in the cabinet of Abdelilah Benkirane. Before this nomination he worked since 1978 as a civil servant at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rabat. He also served as Consul and Ambassador of Morocco to multiple Spanish-speaking countries and was Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean until February 2012.
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Mohamed El Yazghi
- Occupations
- ministerpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Mohamed El Yazghi is a Moroccan politician and former head of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces party. He was born in Fes, Morocco, and held different positions of minister in governments between 1998 and 2009.
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Lahcen Haddad
- Enrolled in Mohammed V University
- In 1984 graduated with DES
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lahcen Haddad is a former Moroccan politician of the Popular Movement. From 3 January 2012, he held the position of Minister of Tourism in the cabinet of Abdelilah Benkirane.
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Khalid Naciri
- Enrolled in Mohammed V University
- In 1969 graduated with licentiate degree in law
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Khalid Naciri was a Moroccan politician of the Party of Progress and Socialism. Between 2007 and 2012, he held the position of Minister of Communications and Spokesperson of the Government in the cabinet of Abbas El Fassi.
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Taieb Cherkaoui
- Occupations
- judgepolitician
- Biography
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Taieb Cherkaoui was the Minister of Interior of Morocco between 2010 and 2012.
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Robert Assaraf
- Occupations
- business executivebusinesspersonessayist
- Biography
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Robert Assaraf was a Moroccan Jewish historian and writer. He resided between Paris, France and Marrakesh, Morocco.
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Ahmed Taoufiq Hejira
- Occupations
- politicianurban planner
- Biography
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Ahmed Toufiq Hejira or Hjira is a Moroccan politician of the Istiqlal party. Between 2007 and 2012, he held the position of Minister of Housing and Urbanism in the cabinet of Abbas El Fassi. He holds a bachelor in economics from the University of Mohammed V.
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Moha Ennaji
- Occupations
- linguist
- Biography
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Moha Ennaji; is a Moroccan linguist, author, political critic, and civil society activist. He is a university professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University at Fes, where he has worked for over 30 years. In addition to his publications in linguistics, he has written on language, education, migration, politics, and gender, and is the author or editor of over 20 books.
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Mohamed Saad Alami
- Occupations
- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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Mohamed Saad Alami or El Alami is a Moroccan journalist and politician of the Istiqlal Party. He held the positions of Minister of Relations with the Parliament between 2002 and 2010, then Minister-Delegate for the Modernization of the Public Sector in the cabinets of Driss Jettou and Abbas El Fassi.
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Malika El Assimi
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- politicianwriterpoet
- Biography
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Malika El Assimi is a Moroccan poet, author, and academic. She is a faculty of the Muhammad V University. She is also an activist and most of her literary works promote women's rights. El Assimi is also a politician.
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Mohamed Jemil Ould Mansour
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- politician
- Biography
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Mohamed Jemil Ould Mansour is a politician in Mauritania. Ould Mansour was a former President of the National Rally for Reform and Development party (Tewassoul) from 2007 to 2017.
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Mohammed Loulichki
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Mohammed Loulichki is a Moroccan diplomat. He was Morocco's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York between November 2008 and 14 April 2014.
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Jamal Aghmani
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jamal Aghmani or Rhmani is a Moroccan politician of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces party. Between 2007 and 2012, he held the position of Minister of Employment and Vocational Training in the cabinet of Abbas El Fassi. He has a bachelor's in social science from the University of Mohammed V and was a professor at the same institution before becoming minister.
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Hassan Abyaba
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Hassan Abya is a cabinet member in the Moroccan government under Saad Eddine El Othmani. As of October 2019, He is the Moroccan Minister of Culture and Communication, the Minister of Youth and Sports, and the government spokesperson.
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Nihal Naj Ali Al-Awlaqi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nihal Naj Ali Al-Awlaqi is a Yemeni lawyer. She was the Yemeni Minister of Legal Affairs from 9 January 2016 to 17 December 2020. In 2016 she received the International Women of Courage Award.
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Mokhtar Lamani
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Mokhtar Lamani is a Moroccan diplomat, born in Morocco and became a resident and a citizen of Canada in 2005, he never served as a Canadian Diplomat. His career as a Moroccan and international civil servant spans 3 decades in the fields and peace and development. He held positions with the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States, was the Ambassador of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference to the United Nations (1998–2005), the League of Arab States’ Special Permanent Representative in Iraq (2006–2007), and the head of the Office of the United Nations and Arab League’s Joint Special Representative in Syria (2012–2014).
