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AlJazeera Forum to Host Moroccan PM

Abdelilah Benkirane, the Moroccan prime minister, will be one of the keynote speakers at the Ninth AlJazeera Forum that will be held 4 through 6 May 2015 in Doha. Prime Minister Benkirane’s keynote speech will be of paramount importance given the Moroccan experience’s uniqueness within the context of the Arab Spring. While the country experienced popular protests after the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions in early 2011, King Mohammed VI initiated a number of reforms to contain the protests. This led to an amended constitution which granted wider powers to parliament and the prime minister...
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Al Jazeera Forum Launches a Contest for Youth Researchers

This year, Al Jazeera Forum will launch a number of new activities including its first research contest for youth under the age of 35 from all over the world. The forum's Higher Organising Committee has announced that the deadline for submitting documents to participate in the contest, in both Arabic and English, is Friday, 10 April 2015. Terms of the contest include, the preparation of an unpublished and original research paper with circa 2500 to 3000 words on the topic of “Change in the Arab World: Approaches and Possibilities” along with an summary that does not exceed 300 words. The...
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