Zamane

Zamane

Editor	Youssef Chmirou
Founder	Youssef Chmirou
Founded	2010
Country	Morocco
Based in	Casablanca
Language	Arabic, French
Website	zamane.ma

Zamane (زمان) is a monthly magazine based in Casablanca, Morocco, dedicated to the history of Morocco, published in two different versions: Arabic and French.¹

The French version launched November 2010. In October 2013, it was published in Arabic with content different from that of the French version. The magazine was founded by Moroccan journalists Youssef Chmirou and Souleiman Bencheikh. Zamane is the first and only history magazine in Morocco.²³

Since 2012, Zamane has been primarily owned by former Moroccan Minister for Industry, Commerce, Investment, and Digital economy Moulay Hafid El Alamy, through his company Media Network Fund.⁴³

Contributors to the magazine, which usually runs over 100 pages, include researchers and professors from Morocco, and sometimes from abroad. The magazine has many images, both photographs and drawings, many of which come from private collections or the personal archives of historians. Zamane states its goal as the preservation of contemporary Moroccan history, from pre-history to the present, and the promotion of the country's history to those who are irritated with official and curricular historiography.⁵

American historian Susan Gilson Miller described Zamane as "anti-establishment", "left-leaning", with a "liberal point of view". According to Miller, the magazine relies on public subscription and celebrates Morocco's diversity. It "heavily criticizes" the first forty years after Morocco became independent, but much less so when it comes to the decades that followed. Its editorial lines considers Morocco's king as well as powerful organs of government and the security services "off limits". And despite contrary claims, it seems very conscious of the red lines and where they should be drawn. It is however not a mouthpiece of the Moroccan authorities, and regularly raises topics that are deemed controversial.⁶