Moulay Ahmed Alaoui (1919–2002)[1] was a Moroccan politician and the cousin of Hassan II.
He joined Istiqlal in 1944, and became an effective networker and publicity agent in France on behalf of the independence movement.
After independence, as King Mohamed V's head of press services and then Minister of Information and Tourism, he worked to organize the experiences of journalists, writers, and tourists in Morocco, encouraging the production of positive representations of Morocco and of the monarchy.
[5] One such writer, Gavin Maxwell, noted Alaoui's energy and hands-on approach to organizing the foreign press corps in the aftermath of the 1960 Agadir earthquake:"...it was Moulay Ahmed himself who at the airport controlled, manually when necessary, the variegated hordes of press attaches and journalists, shouting out lists of names, pushing back those who were in the wrong stream, pulling forward bodily those who were vague or misunderstanding, alternately a brusque bus conductor and a statesman, an irritable usher and a high administrator"[6]Moulay Ahmed Alaoui has served as a minister on several occasions.
[7] Moulay Ahmad Alaoui is a member of the Alaouite dynasty[8] and is a freemason.