The Moroccan-American Professionals Network (MAPRONET With the Sponsorship of The Tangier American Legation Museum Society Is holding a panel discussion on "Morocco at the Crossroads? Political, Economic and Human Rights Issues" Friday, November 30, 2001.

7:00-9:00 p.m., Rome Auditorium, 2 Floor
The Johns Hopkins University (SAIS)
1619 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D.C.
(Red Line, Metro stop: Dupont Circle, South Exit)

Panelists:

William Zartman: Professor, The Johns Hopkins University
Jean-Louis Sarbib: Vice President, The World Bank
Ricky Goldstein: Research Director, Human Rights Watch

Refreshments and light snacks will be served by Las Tapas Restaurant- Alexandria following discussion
Open to the public; seating limited; please RSVP with Theresa Simmons at SAIS 202-663 56 76
ID Cards will be required for entering the building

MAPRONET provides Moroccan-American professionals in North America with a forum:

(i) For professional development and achievement through institutional contacts, structured debates, and specialized activities.
(ii) For strengthening relations between Moroccan experts practicing in North America and private and public institutions in Morocco.

The principal purposes of MAPRONET are:

- Represent and promote the common interests of Moroccan-American professionals residing in North America and American professionals interested in Morocco.
- Facilitate the integration and adaptation of incoming Moroccan professionals and contribute to the professional success of its members.
- Provide Moroccan-American professionals in North America with a forum to exchange views, as well as formulate and implement coordinated programs that reflect their common interests and concerns.
- Foster, through educational programs, cultural activities and other appropriate means, greater awareness, understanding, and appreciation between its members and the wider American and Moroccan communities.
- Initiate and sponsor activities to develop and strengthen ties between American and Moroccan professionals.


Who are the members of MAPRONET?

All Moroccan-American and Moroccan professionals residing in the USA and Canada are eligible to become members of MAPRONET according to criteria defined in the By-laws. MAPRONET will also have associate, supporting and honorary members.

Founding Members of MAPRONET

Fayçal Benhassain

Fayçal Benhassain is a reporter with Potomac Tech Journal, a weekly Newspaper specialized in high technology and part of the Biz Journals Group. He has been a journalist for more than twenty years and worked with major newspapers in different countries including U.S. News and World Report, Gazeta Mercantil (Brazil), Point Net and L¹Alsace (France) and L¹Economiste (Morocco).

Mohammed El Qorchi

Mohammed El Qorchi is economist at the International Monetary Fund where he has served since 1992. He taught economics at the University of Paris X and Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. He worked at the Centre d'Etudes Prospectives Internationales et d'Information in Paris and the Ministry of Finance in Morocco. He received a Ph.D in economics from the University of Paris X in 1987 and participated in a Postdoctoral program at Columbia University-New York in 1987-88.

Abdeslam Maghraoui

Abdeslam Maghraoui, a political scientist, is a Research Fellow at Princeton University's Center of International Studies. Previously, he taught in the Department of Government at Georgetown University and in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He was Program Officer for the Middle East and North Africa project at the International Peace Academy, New York. He earned a Ph.D in Politics from Princeton University in 1991.

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