{"id":25572,"date":"2022-12-07T08:18:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T07:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/?post_type=videos&#038;p=25572"},"modified":"2026-07-24T19:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:42:09","slug":"religious-pluralism-in-post-arab-spring-morocco","status":"publish","type":"videos","link":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/videos\/religious-pluralism-in-post-arab-spring-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Pluralism in Post-&#8220;Arab Spring&#8221; Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Title of the lecture : &#8220;Re-problematizing the Religious Majority-Minority Dialectics in Post-Arab Spring Morocco: Between Subalternity and Digital Disobedience&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Given the debate currently prevailing over religious freedom in post-2011 MENA, the provision for a rationale for investigating the official discourse on religious minorities in Morocco in the light of the \u201cMarrakech Declaration\u201d is likely to maximize spaces of contesting the State\u2019s (semi) authoritarian strategies (Ottaway, 2013) of controlling the (un)equal inclusion of \u201csubaltern\u201d  religious groups as well as renegotiating the notion of equal citizenship.<br \/>\nIn this regard, this paper seeks to re-problematize the religious majority-minority dialectics in Morocco as a predominantly Muslim country where Sunni Malikite Islam is a source of political legitimacy and the basis of the State\u2019s identity. 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