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Aboubakr Jamaï
Journalist

Aboubakr Jamaï

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Co-founding Morocco’s Le Journal Hebdomadaire.

Independent weeklies · University teaching

Born
1968
Birthplace
Rabat

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Aboubakr Jamaï

Aboubakr Jamaï is a Moroccan journalist and former banker who helped establish independent French- and Arabic-language news publications.

Early life

Business studies

Graduated from ISCAE in 1992 and later studied at Oxford and Harvard.

Career

  1. 1993

    Investment banking

    Co-founded Upline Securities.

  2. 1997

    Le Journal

    Co-founded the French-language weekly.

  3. 1998

    Assahifa

    Helped launch its Arabic-language sister publication.

  4. 2003

    Press-freedom award

    Received recognition from the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Selected work

Independent weeklies

Built publications covering Moroccan politics and public affairs.

University teaching

Later taught Middle Eastern politics and worked in higher education.

Beyond work

Family

His father Khalid Jamaï was also a journalist.

Sources & photo creditBiography and career ↗Biographical references ↗

Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.

Photo: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung from Berlin, Deutschland. CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.