Last updated: October 2026
Voices
Voices is the Bureau’s opinion section — a team of great correspondents, each with a named beat, a declared perspective, and a style of argument all their own. These are personal opinions, not news: they take stances, they doubt, they provoke. A trader’s note from Riyadh reads nothing like a column from Casablanca — that is the point. Don’t just read them. Argue with them.
Opinion — the views in these columns are the correspondents’ own. Every voice works from the same evidence, the same numbers, the same verification standard. Perspective shapes the questions, never the facts. Where evidence contradicts a reading, the evidence wins.
Five voices — pick one, then argue.
Younesse Bouziani
One column a month. After years of watching the same story framed three different ways by rival capitals, he had a vision: a newspaper that gives the world clarity. He counts himself lucky that a team of brilliant minds joined him to build it.
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Dounia Filali
Moroccan business, African retail, and 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, and 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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