UPDATE (22 MAY): I finished watching this film a few weeks ago and it's an excellent look into the continued turmoil, unrest and protest within Morocco. The director convincingly captures the Moroccan governments efforts to fund/prop up counter-protest (pro-government) groups. The government does this in an attempt to de-legitimatize and weaken the February 20th movements.
I shared this video with my North Africa grad school professor and he agreed it was well done and forwarded it to our entire class to view.
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Today I am watching the documentary My Makhzen and Me. This is a documentary by a young moroccan and San Diego film student about the February 20th movement in Morocco. It's only about 50 minutes long and I am about half way through it. I came across through the excellent Reading Morocco Blog. It's a great resource and one which I read regularly--you should too if you are interested in Morocco and the rest of the Maghreb.
We are studying Morocco this week in my North Africa class so I appreciate getting a local perspective on recent events.
Makhzen refers to the governing elite class in Morocco--this is a group the revolves around the monarchy and is made up of the royal family, businessmen, wealthy landowners, tribal leaders, top-ranking military personnel, security service leaders.
I will write more about it once I am done.
Links and Morocco/North Africa/Maghreb-ish Blogs that I peruse regularly:
http://readingmorocco.blogspot.com/2012/04/my-makhzen-and-me-film.html
http://www.mymakhzenandme.com/english.html
I shared this video with my North Africa grad school professor and he agreed it was well done and forwarded it to our entire class to view.
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Today I am watching the documentary My Makhzen and Me. This is a documentary by a young moroccan and San Diego film student about the February 20th movement in Morocco. It's only about 50 minutes long and I am about half way through it. I came across through the excellent Reading Morocco Blog. It's a great resource and one which I read regularly--you should too if you are interested in Morocco and the rest of the Maghreb.
We are studying Morocco this week in my North Africa class so I appreciate getting a local perspective on recent events.
Makhzen refers to the governing elite class in Morocco--this is a group the revolves around the monarchy and is made up of the royal family, businessmen, wealthy landowners, tribal leaders, top-ranking military personnel, security service leaders.
I will write more about it once I am done.
Links and Morocco/North Africa/Maghreb-ish Blogs that I peruse regularly:
http://readingmorocco.blogspot.com/2012/04/my-makhzen-and-me-film.html
http://www.mymakhzenandme.com/english.html
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