This study presents a testimony highlighting the practical aspects of the experience of the Laboratory for Moroccan Studies from the Laboratory’s Director for 15 years. A research institution devoted to the social sciences and history affiliated to the University of Tunis, the laboratory studies emerging issues within Moroccan society using the tools of the social and historical sciences and complementary inter-disciplinary approaches and methods. The laboratory is also acutely aware of the need to escape the stranglehold of Eurocentric viewpoints, despite the universal dimension that the Laboratory tries to impart to its research and conclusions, and despite its being a node in a nexus of Arab and international research links.