Workers in the sector of cultural heritage have just met in Shahat to train themselves on how to face antiquities smuggling that poses a threat to Lib...

Libya – a Tourist Hotspot in the Making?
Despite many hurdles ranging from armed militia, fragile government to terrorism, Libya’s tourist minister, Ikram Abdulsalam Imam, believes that his c...

The Globalization of Education through Technology: Valid on Whose Terms?
Globalization is generally viewed as the inevitable solution to many of the world’s inequality issues, especially where access to education and educat...

Golden Age of Morocco’s Jewish Community will never Die
A synagogue has been refurbished and inaugurated by a Head of a government. This is no news, if the event is taking place somewhere in Europe, the Ame...

Mauritania: Festival des villes anciennes gets final prepations
Preparations are in high gear for the 3rd edition of the ‘festival des villes anciennes’ which will begin on the 24th of this month in the isolated hi...

Egypt: Oldest pyramid risks crumbling
The pyramid of Djoser, the oldest pyramid in Egypt, might soon fall according to archaeologists, professors and antiquities enthusiasts. The six-stepp...

Cultural Tourism and Sustainable Rural Development in Southern Morocco
By 18 October 2012, a report that Salafis destroyed an 8,000-year-old petroglyph in Yakour Plain not far from Marrakesh quickly spread on Facebook and...

Moroccan Taragalte Festival Celebrates Timbuktu
The 4th edition of the Taragalte Festival celebrating the Sahara and desert culture, held this November 9 to 11 in M’hamid El Ghizlane, Southern...

A website dedicated to the thought of Islamologist Mohammed Arkoun Launched
A website dedicated to the work and thought of Mohammed Arkoun, the Algerian thinker, philosopher and renowned scholar of Islam, who died in 2010, was...

What Would Obama’s second term mean for the Arab World?
Barack Obama won the presidential race and will lead his country for four more years. Although the presidential race was very tight and some even fear...