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Zakia Salime

Zakia Salime is associate professor in the departments of sociology and of women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Rutgers University.

Life in the Vicinity of Morocco’s Noor Solar Energy Project — A model of the solar complex in the entrance hall of MASEN at Noor-Ouarzazate. Photo by Kelly Pemberton.A pilot project of ecological farming in Izerki, 2018. Photo by the author.

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Life in the Vicinity of Morocco’s Noor Solar Energy Project

Morocco's massive Noor solar energy project is not only generating electricity. Based on her fieldwork and interviews, Zakia Salime explains how the extraction of land, labor and water by the Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy is intertwined with development programs, farming initiatives and job

Zakia Salime • 12 min read

Life in the Vicinity of Morocco’s Noor Solar Energy Project — A model of the solar complex in the entrance hall of MASEN at Noor-Ouarzazate. Photo by Kelly Pemberton.A pilot project of ecological farming in Izerki, 2018. Photo by the author.

Current Analysis

Life in the Vicinity of Morocco’s Noor Solar Energy Project

Morocco's massive Noor solar energy project is not only generating electricity. Based on her fieldwork and interviews, Zakia Salime explains how the extraction of land, labor and water by the Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy is intertwined with development programs, farming initiatives and job

Zakia Salime • 12 min read

MER Article

Protest Camp as Counter-Archive at a Moroccan Silver Mine

Eight years ago, residents of Imider in Morocco's rural southeast shut down a silver mining company's water pipe on a nearby mountain to protest the damages to their health and livelihoods. This direct action turned into the longest sit-in protest encampment in Moroccan history. Perched on a rugged

Zakia Salime • 13 min read

Current Analysis

Precarious Teachers Strike for Public Education in Morocco

Over the past three years, striking and demonstrating teachers have mobilized against their new precarious status as contract-labor under government privatization reforms implemented in 2016. The teachers’ struggle is bound up in the broader fight by Moroccan unions against the government’s neoliber

Zakia Salime • 10 min read

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Morocco's Palestinian Politics

You are not in Gaza, this is al-Hoceima!” This title describes a video clip of tear gas in the streets of al-Hoceima, the epicenter of the ongoing protests by the Hirak movement in the mountainous Rif region of northern Morocco. [1] Hirak protesters risk their lives demonstrating against corruption

Zakia Salime, Paul Silverstein • 9 min read