Professor of International Relations at Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tangier’s Law Faculty and Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South. He is also professor at Royal College of Advanced Military Studies (Kenitra) and professor invited at Cergy-Pontoise University (Paris), Cadix University (Spain) and at La Sagesse University (Beirut, Lebanon). He wrote of numerous books and articles dealing with International relations and geopolitics: the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Arab world. He is co-director of the Moroccan-Spanish review Peace and International Security and in charge of the Observatory of Mediterranean Studies (Abdelmalek Essaadi University).