Hsain Ilahiane

1. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Hsain Ilahiane

   The Longest-Serving Ambassador: How Eleven Moroccan Medjool Offshoots Connected Two Deserts and Two Nations (opens the original)

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   In 2026, the United States commemorated the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence. As Americans reflected on the nation’s founding, another question quietly emerged: how do friendships between nations begin, and why do some endure? One answer lies not in Europe but across the Atlantic in Morocco. In 1777, Sultan Sidi Muhammad ben Abdallah recognized the independence of the United States, making Morocco the first country to do so. A decade later, the 1786 Moroccan-American Treaty o

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2. Article · Aug 10, 2026 · Hsain Ilahiane

   After Ceuta: Where Can a Life Be Built? (opens the original)

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   Every year, on 30 July, Morocco pauses for Throne Day. King Mohammed VI’s annual address is followed by a familiar sequence of images. Al Boraq, Africa’s first high-speed rail line, glides between Tangier and Casablanca. Container cranes rise above Tanger Med, one of the busiest ports in the Mediterranean. Solar fields stretch across the desert near Ouarzazate. New highways link cities that many Moroccans still remember as connected only by winding mountain roads. Automobile factories export to

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