The Rabat Social Studies Institute (RSSI) is an independent Moroccan Think Tank established in 2011. The Institute designs and conducts research on issues related to the political, social and economic development in Morocco and in other MENA countries. The RSSI provides the decision-making community with independent analyses and innovative ideas on how to deal with some of the main challenges they are confronted with. Our team is composed of a group of interdisciplinary researchers who focus on a wide range of issues such as educational policies, youth, women and violence, migration and social inclusion, elections and political participation, social movements and institutional reforms. Our researchers combine both qualitative and quantitative methods and aim to strengthen the research capacity of students and junior researchers by providing them with trainings in research methods, policy analysis and policy writing.
Institutional Representative: Saloua Zerhouni, President
Saloua Zerhouni has a doctorate in political science from the Hassan II University in Casablanca. She is a professor at Mohammed V University in Rabat where she was vice-dean in charge of scientific research and cooperation. She has taught at several universities and grandes écoles such as the University of Michigan Ann Arbor in the United States and Sciences po Bordeaux in France. Between 2001 and 2003, she worked as an associate researcher at the German Institute for International Affairs and Security in Berlin (SWP) where she contributed to a study on “Elite Change in the Arab World”.
Previously, on a Fulbright scholarship, she was visiting researcher at Georgetown University, USA. Zerhouni has written on the Moroccan elites, democratization and its limits, parliament, elections, Islamist parties, young people and political participation. She is co-editor with Ellen Lust-Okar of a book on “Political Participation in the Middle East”, (Lynn Reiners, 2008). Since 2016, Saloua Zerhouni has been president of the Moroccan think-tank Rabat Social Studies Institute (RSSI).
The Rabat Social Studies Institute (RSSI) is an independent Moroccan Think Tank established in 2011. The Institute designs and conducts research on issues related to the political, social and economic development in Morocco and in other MENA countries. The RSSI provides the decision-making community with independent analyses and innovative ideas on how to deal with some of the main challenges they are confronted with. Our team is composed of a group of interdisciplinary researchers who focus on a wide range of issues such as educational policies, youth, women and violence, migration and social inclusion, elections and political participation, social movements…