Mohammed V (1911-1961), also known as Mohammed Ben Youssef, was the first king of independent Morocco. He succeeded in conciliating divided forces of Moroccan nationalism and helped to forge national unity around the throne. Nothing at the birth of...

RABAT King Mohammed has suggested that he would prefer to be a constitutional monarch. But he inherits a political system from his autocratic father that would make that difficult AS THE gun-carriage carrying King Hassan emerged through the palace gates on...

RABAT Mixed signals as King Mohammed tries to transform the country he inherited WHEN protesters take to the streets in other countries, they burn effigies of their leaders. In Morocco, they brandish pin-ups of the king like an amulet to ward...