Moulay Ali Alaoui

Moroccan prince (1924–1988)

Princess Lalla Fatima Zohra
(m. 1961)
IssuePrincess Lalla Joumala Alaoui
Sharif Moulay Abdallah Alaoui
Sharif Moulay Youssef AlaouiHouseAlaouite dynastyReligionIslam

Prince Moulay Ali (1924–1988) was a member of the reigning Alawi dynasty of Morocco. He held many senior positions including ambassador to France (1964–1966), CEO of ONA Group (1980–1985), President of Cosumar and CEO of banks such as Banque Marocaine pour l’Expansion Economique and Soc de Banque et de Crédit.[1][2][3]

Family

He was the son of Prince Moulay Idriss (son of Sultan Moulay Youssef) and Lalla Joumala, a daughter of Moulay Mustafa by his wife which was a daughter of Sultan Hassan I. Thus was a cousin of Hassan II both on his father's and mother's side. He studied in Lycée Lyautey in Casablanca.

He was Special Adviser to his cousin King Hassan II and Special Envoy to Iran in 1966.[4]

On 16 August 1961 he married his cousin Princess Lalla Fatima Zohra, an older sister of Hassan II, with whom he had a daughter and two sons:

Honours

References

  1. ^ Time, Aug. 25, 1961, Morocco: Choose Your Partners
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 29 August 2005. Retrieved 4 August 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ Gilles Perrault: Unser Freund der König von Marokko: Abgründe einer modernen Despotie. Leipzig; Weimar: Kiepenheuer 1992, S. 108 f.
  4. ^ "It happened on April 24, 1965: Hassan II-Ben Barka or the impossible reconciliation - Zamane". zamane.ma. Zamane. 14 May 2020. Retrieved 14 May 2020.