Morocco: Migration and Transnational Identity

Faculty and Staff

Souad Eddouada, PhD, Academic Director
Souad Eddouada, a native of Rabat, holds a PhD in cultural and gender studies from Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. Dr. Eddouada is currently assistant professor of cultural studies and gender studies at Ibn Tofail University in Kenitra, Morocco. Following the completion of her doctorate on women, gender, and the state in Morocco (completed in 2004), she conducted a research project on women’s NGOs in Tunisia. In 2007, she was a postdoctoral research associate at Lund University in Sweden. From 2008 to 2009, Dr. Eddouada was a Fulbright fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where she took part in various workshops and conferences on gender, Islam, and women’s rights in the Middle East and North Africa. Expanding on her dissertation Women, Gender and the State in Morocco, Dr. Eddouada is currently completing the book Women and the Politics of Reform in Morocco. Dr. Eddouada has been involved with SIT programs in Morocco since 2006, initially as a lecturer and Independent Study Project advisor and, subsequently, as associate academic director of the Morocco: Migration and Transnational Identity program.

Asmae Haddaoui, Program Assistant
Asmae serves as program assistant of the SIT Morocco: Migration and Transnational Identity program. Asmae has a BA in law from the University Mohammed V, Rabat, and extensive experience as a group leader at the Center for Cross Cultural Learning. She also has led The Experiment in International Living's summer program in Morocco.

Key Lecturers for this Program Include:

Dr. Ahmed Abadi
Dr. Abadi is a professor of theology and comparative religions as well as the General Secretary of the Mohamedan League of Ulemas (Muslim Scholars). He is an expert in Sufi philosophy and thought. Dr. Abadi has organized and participated in international conferences and roundtable discussions on interfaith issues and cross-cultural dialogue.

Dr. Youssouf Amine Elalamy
Dr. Elalamy is a professor of media studies at Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra. Dr. Elalamy is also a novelist and artist who has produced works in Morocco and internationally. He is the author of A Moroccan in New York and Sea Drinkers (published by Lexington Books) and of a transnational book project entitled Un roman dans la ville (A Novel in the City).

Dr. Khadija Elmadmad
Dr. Elmadmad is an attorney with the Rabat Bar Association of Law and holder of the UNESCO Chair in Migration and Human Rights at the University Hassan II in Casablanca. Additionally, she is president of the Casablanca Center on Migration and Humanitarian Laws; the legal coordinator for Morocco of the Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM) in Florence; a member of the Scientific Board of the Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project; and the UNESCO chair on women’s rights. She is a consultant for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, UNESCO, the International Labor Organization (ILO), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and the Moroccan Red Crescent. Dr. Elmadmad's published books include Asile et réfugiés dans les pays afro-arabes (Asylum and Refugees in the Afro-Arab Countries) and Les migrants et leurs droits au Maghreb (Migrants and Their Rights in the Maghreb).

Said Graiouid, PhD
Said Graiouid received his PhD in communication and cultural studies from the University of Surrey in the UK. Dr. Graiouid is head of the Research Group on Migration and Culture at University Mohammed V in Rabat; editor of Langues et Littératures, University Mohammed V's journal of arts and human sciences; a member of the university's Research Unit on Culture and Development; and a research member with the Africa Network Group (Sterling University, UK). He has served as guest lecturer and ISP advisor with SIT in Morocco since 2000 and as an academic director since 2006 before launching the Migration and Transnational Identity program in the spring of 2008. In 2009, Dr. Graiouid was appointed SIT Study Abroad’s dean for North Africa and the Middle East; in 2012, his responsibilities expanded as he also became the dean of SIT’s Europe portfolio.

Dr. Driss Maghraoui
Dr. Maghraoui is a professor of history and international relations at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane. Dr. Maghraoui teaches courses on North African immigration in Europe, modern imperialism and its culture, history of the Arab world, and history and memory in twentieth-century Europe. He has been a visiting professor at Yale and the University of California, Santa Cruz. His most recent publications include "Secularism in Morocco: A Stagnant Word in Motion," "Northern Africa: Historical Links with Sub-Saharan Africa," "Perceptions of External Pressure to Democratization: The Moroccan Case," and "The 'Grande Guerre Sainte': Moroccan Colonial Troops and Workers in the First World War."

Dr. Fouad Laroui
Fouad Laroui was born in Oujda in 1958. His father disappeared when he was eleven, presumably arrested by the Moroccan authorities, and was never seen again. Dr. Laroui studied engineering at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris and became an engineer. After working for a phosphate mining company in Morocco, he lived in England and then moved to Amsterdam, where he teaches econometrics and environmental science. He has written novels, short stories, and essays, but his work has yet to be translated into English. His style tends towards critiquing Morocco, particularly its corruption and bureaucracy.

Dr. Nadia Bourass
Dr. Bourass was born in Amsterdam in 1981. She holds a PhD in history and specializes in issues of gender and Moroccan immigration and transnationalism in the Netherlands. She is a member of the governing bodies of the Euro-Mediterranean Migration and Development Centre (EMCEMO) and Gresen Links Amsterdam (Green Left Party).

Dr. Abderrahim Anbi
Abderrahim Anbi is a professor of rural sociology and development at Ibnou Zohr University’s school of humanities in Agadir. Dr. Anbi is an expert in research methods in rural Morocco and a member of the university's research laboratory on religion and society. He is interested in rural development, rural family, rural women, single mothers, and migration. He has served as guest lecturer and ISP advisor with SIT in Morocco since 2010. Abderrahim Anbi participated in national and international conferences and roundtable discussions on single mothers, family, women, identities, and migration, especially from his village in Fqih Ben Saleh.

Credits: 16

Duration: 15 weeks

Program Base: Rabat

Language Study: Arabic

Prerequisites: None; however, students with a background in French or Spanish will have opportunities for French/Spanish language practice while also learning Arabic. Read more...