Research & white papers
Publications that distill complex questions into usable frameworks, while keeping scholarly ambition intact.
UM6P Press
The publishing house of University Mohammed VI Polytechnic
UM6P Press gives books, essays, and editorial projects the room to travel. It publishes ideas shaped across the university’s intellectual ecosystem and helps them circulate from Morocco into wider African and international conversations.
Books with a clear point of view
Essays, white papers, translations, and reflective texts that deserve strong editorial framing.
Rooted in Morocco, open to the world
A publishing voice connected to UM6P’s research ecosystem and outward-looking scholarly networks.
Designed for circulation
Not just production, but visibility, readability, and long-term intellectual reach.
Editorial position
Publishing work that can outlast the moment
UM6P Press is where rigorous research, public thought, and carefully shaped writing meet. It supports texts that can speak to specialists, students, and wider readers without flattening complexity.
What readers find here
Research-facing books
Texts emerging from the university’s scientific, philosophical, and interdisciplinary life.
Public-intellectual essays
Books that connect scholarship with contemporary debates, transitions, and cultural questions.
Multilingual publication pathways
Editorial work that can move between French, Arabic, English, and broader transnational readerships.
Mission
A press built for serious thinking, careful editing, and wider dissemination.
UM6P Press extends the university’s research mission into editorial form. It creates a home for books that bring clarity to complex questions and helps ideas move beyond the page that first produced them.
The objective is not volume. It is coherence. Each title should feel like part of a recognizable intellectual landscape: rigorous, readable, and anchored in real questions shaping Morocco, Africa, and the world.
For IAS UM6P, this makes the press more than a communication channel. It becomes a long-form publishing space where research, philosophy, public reasoning, and translation can take the time they need.
Editorial depth over content volume
The press works best when each publication carries a strong idea, a clear voice, and a durable contribution to public knowledge.
Institutional visibility with intellectual integrity
Books strengthen the university’s presence when they remain meaningful works in their own right, not just branded outputs.
A bridge between research and readership
UM6P Press can make advanced work more reachable while keeping the richness and seriousness that gave it value in the first place.
Publishing lines
What UM6P Press can hold together
A university press is strongest when it can bring several editorial energies into one coherent catalogue: research, reflection, and books that travel across disciplines and audiences.
Essays & public thought
Books that let researchers, thinkers, and writers intervene in the broader debates shaping society, culture, and technology.
Translation & circulation
Editorial work that helps important texts move across languages and contexts, opening them to new readerships.
Catalogue
Selected UM6P Press titles
A selection of books and editorial projects currently connected to the IAS publishing trajectory. Each title opens as a dedicated publication page.
01
White Paper of Transitions 2024
Raphaël Liogier et Marouane JaouatIn the rapidly evolving landscape of global change, the concept of transitions has become a cornerstone for understanding the multifaceted shifts occurring across ecological,...
Open publication
02
La complexité vertiges et promesses
Réda BenkiranQu’y a-t-il de commun entre la complexité d’un réseau informatique et celle des insectes sociaux ? Quelles sont les possibilités et les limites de l’intelligence artificielle ?...
Open publication
03
Une raison bien tempérée
Abd-al-Haqq GuiderdoniPlus que jamais, le dialogue des cultures est nécessaire entre l’Occident et le monde musulman, pour conjurer la menace d’un « choc des civilisations » que certains...
Open publication
04
التبادل المستحيل
التبادل المستحيل جان بودريارترجمة: لحسن البوهالي إن لايقين العالم هو أنه لا مُعادل له في أيّ مكان ولا يمكن مبادلتُه بأيّ شيء. كذلك لايقين الفكر هو أنه لا...
Open publication
05
Les sentiers qui bifurquent
- Aube 1 Driss Alaoui MdaghriDans ce premier volume de ses mémoires, sur plus d’un demi-siècle, l’auteur nous invite à parcourir les méandres d’un itinéraire à la croisée...
Open publicationPublishing can be part of research strategy.
For IAS UM6P, books are not an afterthought. They are one of the clearest ways to make research legible, durable, and available to wider communities of readers.