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James N. Sater, PhD is Associate Professor in International Studies at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. He previously worked at Al Akhawayn University in Morocco, where he taught Middle East and North African politics for more than four years. He is the author of Morocco: Challenges to Tradition and Modernity (New York: Routledge, 2010) as well as Civil Society and Political Change in Morocco (New York: Routledge, 2007). He currently works on sectarianism and citizenship in the Middle East.
As elsewhere in North Africa and the Middle East, the youth-driven revolts in Tunisia and Egypt produced a tsunami in Morocco’s political landscape. On February 20, a movement took shape that publicly demanded a constitutional monarchy in which an elected and accountable government would have control over the country’s social, economic, and security policies. All across the country, it organized rallies in which tens of thousands of Moroccans participated.
