Rachid Zidine
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School as a Sorting Machine
Education is often presented as the most powerful instrument of social mobility, a neutral arena where merit prevails over origin. In Morocco, as in many postcolonial societies, schooling is officially framed as a republican promise: equal opportunity for all citizens regardless of class, geography, or family background. Yet, behind this discourse lies a deeply stratified educational system that systematically disadvantages students from poor, rural, and working-class backgrounds. Rather than correcting social inequalities, the Moroccan education system frequently reproduces and legitimizes them. This discrimination has severe social, economic, and political consequences, and it raises an urgent question: how can Morocco move toward a genuinely egalitarian educational system?
By Rachid Zidineabout 2 hours ago in Critique
Alone Together: The Quiet Loneliness of the Connected Age
We have never been so connected, and yet loneliness has never felt so loud. It hums beneath notifications, pulses through glowing screens, and settles quietly in the spaces between posts. It is not the dramatic loneliness of exile or abandonment; it is subtler, more insidious—a loneliness that exists even when the room is full, even when the phone vibrates in our hand.
By Rachid Zidineabout 20 hours ago in Confessions
Beyond Bars: Rethinking Prisons, Punishment, and What Justice Is Really For.
Do we need prisons? It is a deceptively simple question—one that exposes deep assumptions about justice, responsibility, fear, and hope. My answer is yes, but only provisionally. Prisons should exist, but only as a last resort, tightly limited in scope, radically reformed, and oriented toward a clear moral purpose: restoration and public protection, not suffering for its own sake.
By Rachid Zidinea day ago in Critique
