Azzeddine Laraki | |
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10th Prime Minister of Morocco | |
In office 30 September 1986 – 11 August 1992 |
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Monarch | Hassan II |
Preceded by | Mohammed Karim Lamrani |
Succeeded by | Mohammed Karim Lamrani |
Personal details | |
Born |
Fes, Morocco |
1 May 1929
Died | 1 February 2010 Rabat, Morocco |
(aged 80)
Political party | Independent |
Azzeddine Laraki (Arabic: عز الدين العراقي ʻAz ud-Dīn al-ʻArāqī) (1 May 1929 – 1 February 2010) was a politician who served as prime minister in Morocco.
He was born in Fes on 1 May 1929.
Laraki served as the minister of education for nine years from 1976 to 1987 and as Prime Minister of Morocco from 30 September 1986 to 11 August 1992. During his term as education minister, he Arabicized the Moroccan education system. Laraki was secretary general of the Organization of the Islamic Conference from 1997 to 2000. He also served as an aggregate professor at Mohammed V University's the Faculty of Medicine, and a member of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco. In addition, he was author of various literary and scholarly publications.
Laraki died in Rabat, Morocco on 1 February 2010 at the age of 80.