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Bad Weather is Innocent of Meknes Disaster

Bad Weather is Innocent of Meknes Disaster

On Feb.19, 41 worshippers were killed and more than 70 injured when a minaret collapsed at a mosque in the central town of Meknes, 140 km southwest of Rabat. "About 300 worshippers gathered inside the mosque for the Friday afternoon mass prayers. When the (...)

3 Mar. 2010 | 1 comment | Jamal Elabiad

The Death of a Moroccan Newspaper in English

The Death of a Moroccan Newspaper in English

Recently, a university student of English asked me by email whether the new issue of The Casablanca Analyst had been published. The student also wrote that he decided to ask me after emailing the chief editor many times, but in vain. Doubtless the (...)

1 Mar. 2010 | 1 comment | Jamal Elabiad

Najlae Lhimer, a family violence victim, falls foul of French immigration laws

Najlae Lhimer, a family violence victim, falls foul of French immigration laws

Najlae Lhimer is back in Morocco. She has been there since last weekend after French authorities deported her because she was in this country illegally. But the story of the 19-year-old isn’t a just case of illegal immigration. Instead (...)

24 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Is Royal Air Maroc going to drop Atlas Blue ?

The View from Fez is in debt to our reader Andrea Massa for alerting us to the latest news from the sky. Royal Air Maroc Light ? Royal Air Maroc is to drop its Atlas Blue low-cost brand within half a year, instead integrating the Marrakech-based (...)

23 oct. 2009 | | The View From Fez

Morocco : 18 Months in Jail for 3 Journalists from the Weekly Al-Michaal

Rabat- the misdemeanor court sentenced three journalists of the weekly "Al-Michaal" to eighteenth months in jail. Driss Chahtanm, the publishing director, to a year, and journalists Mostafa Hiran and Rashid Mahameed to three months in prison (...)

19 oct. 2009 | 1 comment | Morocco Times

A Couscous Cooking Story

A Couscous Cooking Story

There are hundreds of people blogging about their travels in Morocco and, as you might expect, they vary in quality. Once in a while we see a story that we really like and today we have such a one from Megan O’Keefe. Megan’s account of her (...)

6 oct. 2009 | | The View From Fez

Road accidents kill 14 in Morocco in 24 hours

Road accidents kill 14 in Morocco in 24 hours

Fourteen people have been killed and 38 others injured, seven seriously, in three traffic accidents that occurred in Morocco in the last twenty four hours. In Salé (Rabat twin-city), five people died and four injured, two seriously, on Tuesday afternoon (...)

24 sep. 2009 | | The View From Fez

Rachid Nini: Between his Supporters and Opponents

Rachid Nini: Between his Supporters and Opponents

Many things have been said about him, and several persons wrote about him in newspapers, magazines and online forums. He has been seen as a phenomenon in the field of journalism in Morocco, as his talent has been noticed since the very beginning of his (...)

22 Sep. 2009 | | Morocco Times

Skah Leads a Protest in Front of the Norwegian Embassy

Several civil society representatives and sympathizers with the former Moroccan athlete Khalid Skah stand yesterday in front of the Norwegian Embassy in Rabat, in a protest against the kidnap of his two minor children. Skah denounced the (...)

20 Aug. 2009 | | Morocco Times

Expatriate Health Care in Morocco

Expatriate Health Care in Morocco

People thinking of moving abroad and becoming an expatriate in Morocco have been warned that the country is more expensive due to its popularity with tourists, according to Expatriate Health Care, a website dedicated to selling health insurance. Jane (...)

12 aoû. 2009 | | The View From Fez

Why Moroccan girls like travel to Israel???

Why Moroccan girls like travel to Israel???

A report by the Center for Statistics’’Israeli’’, Morocco issued a list of Arab tourists to the’’Israel’’at each of the years 2006 and 2007 and 2008, and doubled the number of Moroccan tourists some of the (...)

11 Aug. 2009 | | moroccanbeauty

Algerian Army Arrested Leaders in the Polisario Front were Trying to Join Morocco

from left to right: Ahmaddou Ould Souilem (a polizario founder), the Moroccan interior minister Chakib Benmoussa and H.M. King Mohammed VI

According to Algeria Times, five key leaders in the Polisario are detained by the Algerian authorities in army barracks in Tindouf (southwestern Algeria). This event followed the return to Morocco of Ahmaddou Ould Souilem, Polisario founder who served (...)

7 Aug. 2009 | | Morocco Times

Skah Would Pursue the Norwegian Government in International Courts for Kids Kidnapping

Skah Would Pursue the Norwegian Government in International Courts for Kids Kidnapping

During a press conference at the Moroccan Royal Athletics Federation, Khalid Skah, a former Moroccan track champion (the Olympic 10,000-meter gold medallist in 1992) said that he would sue the Norwegian government for kidnapping his two minor (...)

7 Aug. 2009 | | Morocco Times

Morocco: The Fight Against the Spread of Hashish is Not Yet Over

Morocco: The Fight Against the Spread of Hashish is Not Yet Over

Mamadou, L’Bob, Larbi, Z’roki, Sh’homat, Rasta, Drori, Selham, L’hadj, Mi Zina, Nouass, Marquize ... All these are names, or let us say nicknames of some drug dealers in the city of Casablanca, the economic capital of Morocco (...)

5 Aug. 2009 | | Morocco Times

Abdelkader Belliraj Sentenced to life Imprisonment

Abdelkader Belliraj Sentenced to life Imprisonment

The court of appeals of Salé, near Rabat, sentenced, Tuesday morning, Abdelkader Belliraj, the prime suspect in the dismantled Belliraj terrorist ring to life imprisonment on charges of "disturbing the state’s internal security and premeditated (...)

30 Jul. 2009 | | Morocco Times

The War to Shut Newspapers in Morocco is Not Yet Over

a cover of the weekly Almichaal titled “The Scandals of the King’s Aunts”

The Weekly ALMICHAAL is the New Victim. The list of Moroccan journalists who have been taken to courts from January 2007 up to now is too long. After Driss Ksikes and Sanaa Al-Aji (from the weekly magazine Nichane), Ahmed Benchemsi (the director of (...)

29 Jul. 2009 | | Morocco Times

The Number of Jobless Decreased by 11.8% in Morocco

The Number of Jobless Decreased by 11.8% in Morocco

According to the High Planning Commissioner (HCP), the rate of the number of Morocco’s jobless has decreased by 11.8% at the national level, moving from 1.033.000 jobless in the second quarter of 2008 to 911.000 during the same period in 2009, that (...)

28 Jul. 2009 | | Morocco Times

The dynamics of women in Morocco

The dynamics of women in Morocco

A new book, Gendering Religion and Politics, features a paper entitled ’Language, Gender and Power in Morocco’ written by Fatima Sadiqi. The book is edited by Hanna Herzog and Ann Braude of Harvard University, and is published by Palgrave (...)

17 jui. 2009 | | The View From Fez

Obama: Morocco Will be a Leader in Bridging Gaps Between Israel and the Arab World

Obama: Morocco Will be a Leader in Bridging Gaps Between Israel and the Arab World

Official news by Maghreb Arab Press Agency report that the U.S. president Barack Obama sent a special message to His majesty King Mohammed VI yesterday in which he voiced hope that Morocco could play a leading role in peace efforts between Israel (...)

6 Jul. 2009 | | Morocco Times

The Man Who Knows Too Much!

President Gaddafi

I do not know why each time the figure of Muammar Gaddafi comes into my mind, I remember Haile Selassie, the former and final Emperor of Ethiopia. I, strongly, believe that the two men share a lot of things in common. On the one hand, Jah Haile Selassie (...)

2 Jul. 2009 | | Morocco Times

A Passenger in the Plane where the First Case of Virus A/H1N1 has been Detected in Morocco Recounts his Story to Morocco Times

A Passenger in the Plane where the First Case of Virus A/H1N1 has been Detected in Morocco Recounts his Story to Morocco Times

Morocco, two first cases of virus A/H1N1 have been detected in an 18-year-old female student and a 29-year-old man. Both had arrived last week on a flight from Montreal, Canada. Mr. Kamal was a passenger in the same plane, which was landed on June 10, (...)

22 Jun. 2009 | | Morocco Times

Morocco the 8th in Arabs and the 63rd globally in the Global Peace Index (GPI)

A map by the Institut for Economics & Peace shows the state of Peace all over the world

Significant report by the Institute for Economics and Peace has ranked Morocco as being the 63rd, internationally, in the Global Peace Index (GPI). The results of the index also show that Morocco is ranked the 8th in the Middle East and North Africa in (...)

17 Jun. 2009 | | Morocco Times

Arts & Entertainment

Moroccan artists at the Venice Bienale

Moroccan artists at the Venice Bienale

Fathiya Tahiri and Mahi Binebine are the artists representing Morocco at this year’s Venice Biennale. This is a return for Fathiya, who also exhibited at the 51st Venice Biennale back in 2005. The exhibition has been very popular and is beautifully (...)

17 jui. 2009 | | The View From Fez

Morocco’s Communal Elections Campaign 2009: Scandals of Corruption

Corruption, in different forms and situations, has become part of Moroccans’ normal life and something common for many of them. For example, whenever there is an official election, the unregulated flow of money into this later is omni-present. (...)

15 Jun. 2009 | | Morocco Times

11 Dead, 40 injured at Mawazine festival in Rabat

The Mawazine festival in Rabat was a scene of chaos on Saturday night when 11 people were killed and about 40 other people were injured when a wire fence collapsed and caused a stampede. According to police, five women, four men and two children died in (...)

25 mai. 2009 | | The View From Fez

Traffic accidents in Morocco on the rise

Travelling around Morocco on a recent trip in taxis and private cars, it was noticeable just how well most people drive compared to a few years ago. Speed limits and stop signs were all observed and there were no incidents in which a driver attempted to (...)

14 mai. 2009 | | The View From Fez

Morocco on alert for Swine Flu

Morocco on alert for Swine Flu

Morocco’s Health Ministry has assured that there is no case of swine flu in the country, even as the disease is confirmed to have spread from Mexico to other parts of the world. In a statement issued here on Wednesday, the ministry said it had put (...)

30 avr. 2009 | | The View From Fez

Arts & Entertainment

Morocco to feature at 2009 Mediterranean Film Festival

Morocco and France will be the special guest countries at the 15th annual Mediterranean Film Festival to be held in the Italian capital, Rome, in November. President of the festival, Ginella Vocca, has invited writers, producers and distributors to (...)

21 avr. 2009 | | The View From Fez

Arts & Entertainment

Moroccan Sufi Brotherhood to feature on film

The Fez Hamadcha (click on images to enlarge) The Hamadcha Brotherhood are one of the most popular of the Sufi Brotherhoods in Morocco, and while they are very strong in the areas around Fez, Zerhoun and Meknes, their popularity spreads across the country (...)

17 avr. 2009 | | The View From Fez

Romantic Morocco ?

Looking for romance in all the wrong places ? Going to the movies, or the bars, or the gym may be all the wrong places to find romance. Sometimes one has to travel farther, search longer, follow our hearts to strange and far-away places to find romance. (...)

26 mar. 2009 | | The View From Fez

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