Last updated: October 2026
The Newsroom
Four voices — one editor-in-chief and three columnists, one standard: no single capital owns the whole truth.
The Bureau is a desk-based newsroom. Our writers work from the research desk — we do not claim reporters in every capital, and we do not present secondhand material as field reporting. They were hired for two things: knowing their beat cold, and being willing to argue with their own side when the facts demand it.
The Morocco desk is covered by the Editor-in-Chief himself. Every story is researched at the desk, checked against primary sources, and argued through three lenses — West, East, and Global South — before it reaches the page.
Founder
Younesse Bouziani
Founder & Editor-in-Chief — Morocco desk
After years of watching the same story framed three different ways by rival capitals, Younesse had a vision: a newspaper that gives the world clarity. He founded the Bureau on that idea, writes one column a month, and covers the Morocco desk himself. He is the author of Nations vs Corporations: An Economic (R)evolution. He counts himself lucky that a team of brilliant minds joined him to build it.
The voices
4 voicesEach writes news and argues opinions in Voices — click a card to read their columns.
Dounia Filali
Moroccan business, African retail, consumer markets.
Casablanca. Dounia spent six years running retail for Inditex and three selling sugar for a state-owned company — she reads the African consumer the way traders read tickers. Her argument: the economy isn’t what ministers announce, it’s what shoppers decide.
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Malika Ahardane
Global consumer brands, marketing, and corporate power.
Casablanca. A marketing manager at Procter & Gamble since 1999 — working with Johnson & Johnson, Bank of America, Sony Entertainment Music, and L’Oréal — Malika writes about brand power: how the world’s biggest corporations decide what billions of people buy, and what that means for everyone else.
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Khalid Al Harbi
OPEC+ and oil markets, Vision 2030, Gulf finance.
Riyadh. He reads OPEC+ communiqués the way other people read weather — for what they don't say. When ministers talk about “market stability,” Khalid translates it into barrels, and barrels into who gets paid. His columns tend to arrive before the market has finished digesting the news.
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