Said Saddiki, PhD
Said Saddiki is a professor of international relations and international law at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco, where he has headed the Department of Public Law since 2023. He also served as a professor at Al-Ain University in Abu Dhabi, UAE, for nearly seven years. He is a senior fellow at the Moroccan Institute for Policy Analysis and co-chair of the Research Committee on Migration and Citizenship of the International Political Science Association.
He has authored six books, including “World of Walls: Structure, Roles and Effectiveness of Separation Barriers” and “The State in a Changing World: Nation-State and New Global Challenges.” He is also the co-author of “Borders and Border Walls in the Arab World: Challenges of Security, Migration, and Policy.” He has published several articles, book chapters, and policy papers and received several international awards and grants, including a Fulbright Visiting Scholarship, a Research Fellowship at the NATO Defense College in Rome, and the Arab Prize in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Graduate Courses Taught
International Humanitarian & Refugee Law, Standards, and Principles
Select Publications
Borders and Border Walls in the Arab World: Challenges of Security, Migration, and Policy. Co-edited with Elisabeth Vallet. Tangiers: Maison Al-Ihya d’édition et de distribution, 2025. (In Arabic)
“UN Charter Reform: Balancing Sovereign Equality and Effective Functioning.” In Sovereignty and Coercion: The United Nations in the Web of Power Politics, edited by Hans Köchler, 169-184. Vienna: International Progress Organization, 2025.
“Border Walls in a Regional Context: The Case of Morocco and Algeria.” In Borders and Border Walls: In-Security, Symbolism, Vulnerabilities, edited by Elisabeth Vallet and Andreanne Bissonnette, 106–116. New York: Routledge, 2021.
“The Maghreb and Intra-African Migration: One Challenge and Different Strategies.” In Intra-Africa Migrations: Borders as Challenges and Opportunities, edited by Inocent Moyo, Jussi P. Laine, and Christopher Changwe Nshimb, 126–139. London: Routledge, 2021. of 1 2
“Fencing the Desert: Contexts and Politics of the Gulf Border Walls.” Journal of Borderlands Studies 3 9 , n o . 4 ( 2 0 2 4 ) : 6 2 3 – 6 3 6 . h t t p s : / / d o i . o rg / 10.1080/08865655.2023.2168293.
“Open Internal Borders and Closed External Borders in the EU.” In Open Borders: In Defense of Free Movement, edited by Reece Jones, 169–176. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2019. (Co-authored with Meryem Lakhdar). https://doi.org/10.2307/ j.ctt22nmc35.15.
World of Walls: Structure, Roles and Effectiveness of Separation Barriers. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2017. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0121
Research Interests
Border walls/fences
Foreign policy analysis
International migration
The Western Sahara dispute
Education
- PhD, Public Law, Mohammed 1st University, Oujda
- DESA, Public Law, Mohammed 1st University, Oujda
- License, Public Law, Mohammed 1st University, Oujda
- DEUG, Law, Mohammed 1st University, Oujda.
