Links to a couple of interesting articles. Prospect’s September issue has several pieces on the economic challenges after the Arab Spring, including Claire Spencer (Reform, Round Two) highlighting the unfinished business of the Spring revolutions themselves. Job creation and SME-building are the real challenges for countries with massive youth unemployment, and the economies of Egypt … More Economic Challenges and February 20th

It’s the end of August, the rentrée approaches, and I am halfway though my four-year term as Director of the British Council in Morocco. I’m beginning the new academic year with a new blog, in which I shall try to find interesting things to say about Morocco, the Middle East, the books and journals that cross my desk – and, … More An Elephant in the Room, or Un Fiil dans the bayt