“This earthquake is not a mere incident, but a full-blown disaster of unprecedented magnitude for Morocco. It is a real tragedy,” Hassan Aourid, the Moroccan writer and academic, tells Al Jazeera, as he reflects on the devastating earthquake that hit the country on Friday, which he says left the nation reeling.
The former government official is one of Morocco’s most important intellectual figures, and is currently a professor at Mohammed V University in Rabat.
