Politics of Appearances: Religion, Law, and the Press in Morocco

Q3 Social Sciences

Muslim World Journal of Human Rights Pub Date : 2007-09-03 DOI:10.2202/1554-4419.1106

A. Souaiaia

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Since the last several years of the life of King Hassan II, Morocco slowly moved from authoritarian rule to a managed democracy. As a result of this gradual political liberalization, religious groups as well as secular ones formed political parties. Islamists have already won seats in the parliament and they are expected to gain nearly half the number of seats in the coming elections. Equally significant is the increased presence of human rights and non-government organizations and the emergence of independent and party-affiliated newspapers and other media outlets. In this article, I focus on the prospects of seeing a free press emerging in Morocco given the pressures exerted by official and non-official authorities. I argue that government interventions stifle freedom of expression and weaken civil society. This study focuses exclusively on Moroccan Arabic and French language print media.

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表象的政治:摩洛哥的宗教、法律和新闻

自从哈桑二世国王生命的最后几年，摩洛哥慢慢地从独裁统治转向有管理的民主。随着政治的逐渐自由化，宗教团体和世俗团体组成了政党。伊斯兰主义者已经在议会中赢得了席位，预计他们将在即将到来的选举中获得近一半的席位。同样重要的是，人权组织和非政府组织的出现有所增加，独立的和附属于党的报纸和其他媒体的出现。在这篇文章中，我将重点讨论在官方和非官方当局施加压力的情况下，摩洛哥出现新闻自由的前景。我认为，政府干预扼杀了言论自由，削弱了公民社会。本研究的重点是摩洛哥阿拉伯语和法语印刷媒体。

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期刊介绍： Muslim World Journal of Human Rights promises to serve as a forum in which barriers are bridged (or at least, addressed), and human rights are finally discussed with an eye on the Muslim world, in an open and creative manner. The choice to name the journal, Muslim World Journal of Human Rights reflects a desire to examine human rights issues related not only to Islam and Islamic law, but equally those human rights issues found in Muslim societies that stem from various other sources such as socio-economic and political factors, as well the interaction and intersections of the two areas. MWJHR welcomes submissions that apply the traditional human right framework in their analysis as well as those that transcend the boundaries of contemporary scholarship in this regard. Further, the journal also welcomes inter-disciplinary and/or comparative approaches to the study of human rights in the Muslim world in an effort to encourage the emergence of new methodologies in the field. Muslim World Journal of Human Rights recognizes that several highly contested debates in the field of human rights have been reflected in the Muslim world but have frequently taken on their own particular manifestation in accordance with the varying contexts of contemporary Muslim societies.