Prince Moulay Hicham of Morocco

Prince Moulay Hicham of Morocco
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Moulay (Prince) Hicham of Morocco, born March 12, 1964, is the cousin of the current King Mohammed VI and Prince Moulay Rachid. Raised in Rabat, he is the son of Prince Moulay Abdallah of Morocco, the late brother of former king Hassan II, and Princess Lalla Lamia as-Solh, daughter of Riad as-Solh, the first prime minister of Lebanon. He is also the cousin of Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, whose mother is another daughter of as-Solh. Under the constitution, Moulay Hicham stands third in the line of succession to the Alaouite throne.

He has been nicknamed "The Red Prince" because of his leftist political positions, and his advocacy of democratic reforms in Morocco and the Arab world. A graduate of Princeton University, he is currently a research fellow at Stanford University.


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Activities

  • Founder and President of the Moulay Hicham Foundation, a non-profit private foundation for social science research on North Africa and the Middle East.[1]
  • Co-founder, along with John Waterbury and Abdellah Hammoudi, of the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia (TRI) at Princeton University.[2]
  • Managing director of Al-Tayyar, a renewable energy firm.[3]
  • Member of the consultative committee of Human Rights Watch on the MENA region.

Personal life

As a member of the royal family, Moulay Hicham was raised in Rabat alongside his brother and cousins. He attended the Rabat American School, and afterwards matriculated into Princeton University. He later attended Stanford University for graduate study in political science. In 2002, Moulay Hicham relocated to Princeton, New Jersey.[4] He is married, since 1995, to Malika Benabdelali, a cousin of the Moroccan businessman and current minister of Agriculture Aziz Akhannouch. He has two daughters: Lalla Faïza (b. 1996) and Lalla Hajar (b. 1999).

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