Dr. Mohamed Chtatou is a senior professor of Middle Eastern Politics at the International University of Rabat (IUR) as well as education science at Mohammed V University in Rabat. He is currently a political analyst with Moroccan, Gulf, French, Italian, American and British media on politics and culture in the Middle East, Islam and Islamism as well as terrorism. He is, also, a specialist on political Islam in the MENA region with interest in the roots of terrorism and religious extremism.

During 2015 he worked as Program Director with the USAID/CHEMONICS educational project entitled: “Reading for Success: a Small Scale Experimentation” in cooperation with the Moroccan Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training (MENFP).

He graduated from Mohammed V University in English studies, with honors in 1976, then went to England where he did a General Diploma in theoretical linguistics at University College London in 1977. In 1980 he got an MPhil from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London in Amazigh Studies, and in 1982 a PhD in Amazigh language and anthropology.

From 1983 to 1987, he worked for Peace Corps Morocco as Language and Cross-Culture Coordinator and later on as Project Director. He served several times as inter-port lecturer in Middle East politics and culture with the Semester at Sea program of Pittsburgh University.

In 1987, he joined the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) where he worked until 2013 as a program specialist and later on as a director at the Directorate of Education (worked on functional literacy, women empowerment, education planning, curriculum design, teacher training, education of rural women and girls, special education, higher education, etc.,),then director at the Directorate of Culture (worked on dialogue of cultures, inter-faith dialogue, women in development, cultural production, etc.) and director at the Directorate of External Relations and Cooperation (worked on cooperation with UN agencies, UNESCO, Alliance of Civilizations, WHO, FAO, UNFPA, etc.).

During his work for ISESCO, he set up educational programs to teach peace and combat religious radicalism among the youth in various countries of the Muslim World. He also trained trainers in this particular course and helped design specific curriculum.

From 2013 to 2O18 he taught courses on “Moroccan Jewish Legacy”, “Introduction to Amazigh/Berber Culture,” “The Arab Spring,” “Introduction to Islam,” and “Understanding political Islam” to American students on semester abroad programs of AMIDEAST, IES and CIEE.

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