The Royal College ( ''al-madrasa al-mawlawiya'', ) is an education establishment located inside the royal palace in
Rabat
Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan populati ...
. Since its foundation in 1942 during the
French Protectorate, it has specialized in the education of princes and princesses of the
Alaouite dynasty
The Alawi dynasty ( ar, سلالة العلويين الفيلاليين, translit=sulālat al-ʿalawiyyīn al-fīlāliyyīn) – also rendered in English as Alaouite, Alawid, or Alawite – is the current Morocco, Moroccan royal family and re ...
. Its director is Abdeljalil Lahjomri.
History
The Royal Academy was created in 1942 by
Mohammed V under the
French protectorate.
[ This came after the monarch initially tried to send his son ]Hassan II Hassan, Hasan, Hassane, Haasana, Hassaan, Asan, Hassun, Hasun, Hassen, Hasson or Hasani may refer to:
People
*Hassan (given name), Arabic given name and a list of people with that given name
*Hassan (surname), Arabic, Jewish, Irish, and Scottis ...
to the in France but couldn't because of World War II. The school opens a class for each senior member of the Alaouite Royal family. It previously opened classes for Hassan II, Mohammed VI, Prince Moulay Rachid, Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco
Moulay Hassan bin Mohammed (born 8 May 2003) is the Crown Prince of Morocco. He is the elder child of King Mohammed VI of Morocco and Princess Lalla Salma. He has a younger sister, Princess Lalla Khadija. He is named after his grandfather Hass ...
, the daughters of Hassan II, Prince Moulay Ismail and Sharifa Lalla Soukaïna.[
]
Classes
Class of Prince Moulay Hassan
Some of the attendees:[
* ]Hassan II Hassan, Hasan, Hassane, Haasana, Hassaan, Asan, Hassun, Hasun, Hassen, Hasson or Hasani may refer to:
People
*Hassan (given name), Arabic given name and a list of people with that given name
*Hassan (surname), Arabic, Jewish, Irish, and Scottis ...
* Ahmed Reda Guedira
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* Ahmed Osman
* Abdellah Gharnit
* Prince Moulay Youssef Alaoui (son of Prince Moulay Idriss Alaoui, the older brother of Mohammed V)
* Moulay Salama Ben Zidan
* Abdesalam Berchid
* Mohammed Hajji
* Abdelhafid Kadiri (Minister of Sport in the 1970s)
Class of Prince Sidi Mohammed
The class was opened officially in 1973.[
* ]Mohammed VI Muhammad VI may refer to:
* Muhammad Imaaduddeen VI (1868–1932), sultan of the Maldives from 1893 to 1902
* Mehmed VI (1861–1926), sultan of Ottoman Empire, from 1918 to 1922
* Mohammed VI of Morocco
Mohammed VI ( ar, محمد الساد ...
* Fouad Ali El Himma
Fouad Ali El Himma ( ar, فؤاد عالي الهمة; born 6 December 1962, in Ben Guerir, Morocco) is a Moroccan politician and senior advisor for Mohammed VI of whom he is said to be a very close friend. Since he became Secretary of State in th ...
*
* Yassine Mansouri
Mohammed Yassine Mansouri ( ar, محمد ياسين المنصوري; born April 2, 1962) is a Moroccan dignitary who is serving the director of Morocco's external intelligence agency, the General Directorate for Studies and Documentation since F ...
* Noureddine Bensouda
* Rochdi Chraibi*
* Fadel Benyaich
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*Driss Basri (1938–2007), Moroccan politician, Interior Minister 1979–1999
*Driss Ben-Brahim, former partner and head of Goldman Sachs trading
*Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi (born 1937), t ...
, Governor of Figuig
* Anas Khalès[ Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland
* Samir El Yazidi,][ Governor of Tiznit
* Hassan Aourid*
* ]Karim Ramzi
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Given name Karim
* Karim A ...
, a photographer and son of former Health Minister Ahmed Ramzi.
*Zouheir Ibrahimi, the son of the personal Tailor
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History
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of Hassan II, he currently holds a high position in the Ministry of the Interior
*Naim Temsamani, was excluded from the school in 1977 (along with another student) because he was good at Math whereas the class was oriented to literary studies.[
* Prince Hicham Alaoui, until September 1972.]
*Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan ( ar, مُحَمّد بِن زَايد آل نَهيَان, Moḥamed bin Zāyed Āl Nahyān; born 11 March 1961), colloquially known by his initials as MBZ, is the third president of the United Arab Emirate ...
, Emir of Abu Dhabi, briefly until the age of 10.[
* Princess Meryem Alaoui, attended before the creation of a female-only class][
* joined in 1977
]
Class of Prince Moulay Rachid
* Prince Rachid Alaoui
*Khalid Sakhi
*Mehdi Jouahri[
* Prince Youssef Alaoui
]
People who worked at the Royal Academy
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, was the teacher of mathematics for crown prince Hassan II.
*Ahmed Bahnini
Ahmed Bahnini (Arabic: أحمد بحنيني; 1909, Fes – 10 July 1971, Rabat) was a Moroccan politician who served as the 4th Prime Ministers of Morocco from 1963 to 1965 under King Hassan II. He also served as President of the Supreme Cour ...
, taught Arabic for the class of crown prince Hassan II.
References
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Mohammed VI of Morocco
Alumni of the Collège Royal (Rabat)
Education in Morocco
Education in Rabat
Schools in Morocco