The tragic death of five-year-old Rayan Oram, who died after being trapped in a well for five days, saw an outpouring of solidarity and sorrow from across the region. But while Rayan’s plight moved the world, some Moroccans took a different view, saying it reflected a deep-rooted structural problem in villages across the country. “There’s no place for poetry in Rayan’s story. It is a Moroccan tragedy rooted in neglected wells and water shortages in villages,” Hayat, a teacher in a Moroccan village, told The New Arab. The story of ‘little Rayan’ and the painstaking operation to rescue him had g…