Published in French, this long-term work is a biographical collection of 270 portraits of Moroccan journalists from all walks of life who have left their mark on the national media landscape from the dawn of independence to the advent of social media.

In his speech on the genesis and method of development of the book, Ajbali noted a first difficulty that is illustrated in the absence of historical and academic documents devoted to Moroccan journalism, noting that "journalists talk about everything without anyone talking about them".

This book, whose Arabic version will be published soon, comes to answer precisely this first gap, stressed Ajbali.

In the choice of journalists and the compilation of material for the realization of this unprecedented work both in Morocco and in Africa, the author affirmed that he has imposed a set of rules for an equal treatment of biographies and photographic portraits, and to guarantee the bias of exhaustiveness in order not to exclude any of the journalistic currents whose diversity testifies to the specificity of the Moroccan press.

"Figures of the Moroccan press" is a biographical directory of journalists from the written press, television, radio and MAP, which aims to be a real reading in the history of Morocco through the experiences of all these men and women of the Moroccan press.

It is also a substantive work that fits perfectly with the new missions of MAP, those of supporting the media sector through knowledge and research, said MAP Director General, Khalil Hachimi Idrissi, in his preface to the book.