Experimental Visions of Modern Morocco: Expertise, Popularization, and Everyday Technologies in the Work of ʿAbd al-Salam al-Diyuri

Abstract This article examines the work and trajectory of ʿAbd al-Salam al-Diyuri, a Moroccan engineer educated in Egypt who became nationalist writer, editor, publisher during last decade French Protectorate (1912–56). One only few engineers trained Arabic this period, al-Diyuri developed vision modernization rooted popularization technical knowledge that distinguished him from colonial as well elites. experts exercised an epistemic dominance over practice engineering under protectorate after Morocco's independence. In context, al-Diyuri's arguments traced contours alternative future for country—one tied decolonization to cultivation competencies among public at large. follows path intellectual whose both embodied attempted move beyond contradiction between democratization demands development.