IES ABROAD RABAT
89, Avenue Moulay Ismail | Rabat-Hassan, Morocco

The IES Abroad Rabat Center is located within easy walking distance of the Medina and is just steps away from the Mausoleum and Hassan II Tower. Features include:

  • High-speed wireless Internet and printer access
  • Five multimedia classrooms
  • Student library and reading room
  • Outdoor patio
  • A beautiful Berber tent on the roof-top terrace
Center staff: 

Mohamed Baghdadi
IES Abroad Director
Mohamed Baghdadi is a leading Moroccan specialist on language teaching with experience in teaching and training teachers of Modern Standard Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, Berber (Tamazight), and English. He earned his B.A. in English literature from Université Sidi Mohamed ben Abdellah in Fez and pursued further studies at the Moray House College of Education of the University of Edinburgh, the University of Manchester, and the Centre Nationale de Formation des Inspecteur de l’Education Nationale where he earned a diploma for the supervision of language teachers. For more than 13 years, he served as Program and Curriculum Coordinator of The Arabic Language Institute in Fez (ALIF), the leading school of Arabic as a foreign language west of Egypt. In addition to overseeing the language program, Mohamed was responsible for orientation, student life, curricular design of area studies courses, and customized programs. His research interests focus on the interaction between the teaching of language and the teaching of culture. He has a lifelong interest in Tamazight music and culture.

IES Abroad Staff

Fatima Ezzahra Lahna
Program Assistant and Accountant 

Shaakira Raheem 
Student Affairs Coordinator 

Faculty

Salaheddine Abbadi
Arabic

Driss Adli
Literature

Fatima Amrani
Gender Studies, Sociology

Leila Bouarfa
Colloquial Moroccan Arabic

Jamila Boulima
Communications

Badia Bouslikhane
French

Khalid Chegraoui
International Relations, Political Science

Yamina El Kirat
African Studies

Elhabchi Elaasri
Arabic

Boutaina Ismaili
Economics

Khalid Chegraoui
History

Abderrahim Oulbouch
Arabic

Aziz Radi
Communications

El Mostafa Rezrazi
Political Science

Khalid Saqi
Religion

Mohammed Yacine
Arabic