Political Disneyland - Patriotic Algeria

By Mohamed El-Maadi – Morocco no longer governs; it masks its decay with gilding. The Makhzen no longer administers a state; it manages a monarchical illusion, a sort of political Disneyland where appearances have become more important than sovereignty and alliances more profitable than dignity. At the top of this shadow theater, a sick, worn-out king, who has disappeared from the radar, and a teenage heir, a young specter projected into a world…