After years of patiently enduring many hardships, Hamid Nabil, a blind Moroccan student, has obtained a top doctoral degree in English from the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences at Morocco’s Mohammed V University of Rabat.
His doctoral thesis, called “Representations and Moroccans’ Positions on Radio Production”, analysed the content of several Moroccan radio stations, including the popular “Mohammed VI of the Holy Quran” station.
With this step, Nabil has become the first Moroccan student with special needs to obtain such a high academic degree for a scholarly study in English. His achievement also draws more attention to the challenges that blind students face in Moroccan universities, which advocates hope will lead to reforms helping other students with disabilities.
Nabil told Al-Fanar Media that his ambition to obtain a doctorate coincided with the loss of his eyesight at the age of 18. He felt that he had to try to adapt and strive to prove himself. “I had great energy after I felt that this was my destiny,” he said.