Le Monde Diplomatique.. Professional activities Founder and President of the Hicham Alaoui Foundation, a non-profit private foundation supporting social science research on the Arab world at leading global universities, among them College de France and Gothenburg University, as well as scholarly books on topics such as the political economy of Arab educational systems. Co-founder, along with John Waterbury and Abdellah Hammoudi, and principal donor of the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia (TRI) at Princeton University. Founder and principal donor of the Arab Reform and Democracy research program at Stanford University. Numerous past advisory positions for academic institutions and pro-democracy NGOs, including the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University, the MENA advisory committee of Human Rights Watch, the Carter Center, and the Middle East Center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Founder and principal of Al Tayyar Energy, a renewable energy firm with major investments in Thailand and other developing nations. Producer of the 2012 award-winning documentary on democratization and dictatorship, A Whisper to a Roar, in collaboration with director Ben Moses. Principal officer for United Nations peacekeeping missions, most prominently in Kosovo in 2000. Personal life As a member of the Moroccan royal family, Prince Moulay Hicham was raised in the palace quarter of Rabat alongside his brother and cousins, including the current King Mohammed VI. He attended the Rabat American School and graduated from Princeton University in 1985 with an A.B. in an independent concentration after completing a 137-page senior thesis titled "Sources of Success and Failure in the Palestinian National Movement." As his father, Moulay Abdallah, died during his college education, the prince developed a close relationship with King Hassan. He later attended Stanford University for graduate study, graduating in 1997 with an M.A. in political science. Many of these events are outlined in his memoirs, Journal d'un Prince Banni, published in April 2014 to considerable controversy. In 2002, Prince Moulay Hicham relocated to Princeton, New Jersey with his family due to political tensions with King Mohammed VI and other elements of the Moroccan monarchy. He was married in 1995 to Sharifa Lalla Malika Benabdelali, a cousin of the Moroccan businessman, RNI party luminary, and current Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch. He has two daughters: Sharifa Lalla Faizah Alaoui (born 1996), who attended Yale University, and Sharifa Lalla Haajar Alaoui (born 1999), who attended Princeton University. In 2014,