Abdallah Saaf

Following his graduation, Saaf taught at different universities and held several academic administrative posts.^[2] He joined a leftist party, Organization of the Popular Democratic Action (OADP), founded in 1983.^[3] It was part of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces. In 1998, he was named as the deputy minister of technical and secondary education, which post he held until 2000.^[3] In 2000 he was appointed minister of education and was in office until 2002.^[3] He served in these roles in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Abderrahmane Youssoufi.^[3]

In 2011, immediately following the events across Arab countries known as Arab Spring, Saaf was elected as a member of the commission that drafted the revisions of the Constitution of Morocco.^[3] He is the founder of the Moroccan Association of Political Science.^[2][4] He has worked as faculty member at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and is the professor emeritus of political sciences at Mohammed V University.^[1] He is also director of the Center for Studies in Social Sciences Research.^[1]

In addition to his publications on political sciences, Saaf published books about his daily bus journeys in Rabat.^[3] The first one was Carnets de bus, published by Bus Notebooks in 1999.^[3] The other one was translated into English under the title A Significant Year in 2021.^[3]

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