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Saad-Eddine El Othmani (also written Saadeddine Othmani) is a Moroccan Amazigh politician and psychiatrist. He was born in 1956 in Inezgane, near Agadir, in the Souss region. He earned a Doctorate in Medicine from Hassan II University of Casablanca in 1986, and in psychiatry in 1994. He also earned... moreSaad-Eddine El Othmani (also written Saadeddine Othmani) is a Moroccan Amazigh politician and psychiatrist. He was born in 1956 in Inezgane, near Agadir, in the Souss region. He earned a Doctorate in Medicine from Hassan II University of Casablanca in 1986, and in psychiatry in 1994. He also earned Master and DEA degrees in Islamic studies in 1983, 1987 and 1999. He has written numerous books on psychology and Islamic law, and has been the editor-in-chief of many magazines and publications. In 2004, and after the withdrawal from politics of Abdelkrim Alkhatib, Saadeddine Othmani became the head of the Justice and Development Party. He is also a parliamentary deputy of Inezgane.
Saadeddine Othmani is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs (since 3 January 2012) in the new Moroccan Government headed by his party (the Justice and Development Party).
Saad Eddine El Othmani comes from a family of famous Amazigh Souss, according to Mohamed Mokhtar Soussi, is "one of only two families in Morocco where science has continued for over a thousand years.
Saad Eddine El Othmani, after a degree in experimental sciences in 1976, entered medical school in Casablanca, obtaining a doctorate in general medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University Hassan II in 1986 and a master's specialty psychiatry in 19941. He also has a degree in Islamic law (Sharia) in 1983 and a Masters degree in Islamic law at Dar al-Hadith al-Hassania in 1987 and a graduate degree in Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Mohammed V University in Rabat in November 1999.
Once you become a medical doctor, Saâdine El Othmani began in 1987 to practice as a general practitioner, and beginning in 1990, as part of continuing his medical studies, also as a physician during specialty psychiatry at the University Hospital of Casablanca. In 1994, he became a psychologist at the Psychiatric Hospital Berrechid, and, until 1997.
His career then resolutely towards political orientation, causing it to perform various responsibilities. Following the 1997 elections, he became parliamentary Inezgane1 his hometown, he remained after those of 2002 through 20071. Meanwhile, he was the Vice President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament in 2001-2002, became a member of the Maghreb Shura Council (Advisory Council of the Arab Maghreb Union) in 2002 and evolved in its political connecting.
In January 1998, he became director of the Constitutional Democratic Popular Movement (MPDC), born of a split of the Popular Movement (MP) and "ancestor" of the Party of Justice and Development (PJD), an Islamist persuasion, in December 1999, the Deputy Secretary General of PJD1, and from 2004, after the retirement from politics of Abdelkrim Al Khatib (founder of MPDC), its Secretary General.
Party elections in 2008, where he was not represented as Secretary General, he was replaced by Abdelilah Benkirane, but won the presidency of the National Council. He also became the Chairman of the Committee on International Relations of the PJD.
He was appointed on 3 January 2012, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in the Benkirane government formed after the victory of the PJD in parliamentary elections in 2011. It replaces Taieb Fassi-Fihri, became diplomatic adviser of King Mohammed VI. less