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Ahmed Benchemsi

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Ahmed Benchemsi, an award-winning journalist and the former publisher and editor of Morocco’s two best-selling newsweeklies, TelQuel and Nishan, is now a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Program on Arab Reform and Democracy.

The Ups and Downs of Two Pioneering Magazines

TelQuel ("As It Is"), the French-language weekly I founded in 2001, has been the best-selling newsmagazine in Morocco since 2004. Time magazine mentioned its history of "breaking press taboos," The…
September 8, 2011

Morocco and Press Freedom: A Complicated Relationship

A visibly corrupt government but a wide space for journalists to denounce it, relentlessly harassed newspapers but still a vivid, daring and popular press—welcome to the kingdom of paradox.
September 8, 2011