Moroccan anthropologist Aomar Boum, a renowned scholar of Jewish culture, has been appointed to the Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Author and co-editor of four books, including “Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco,” and “The Holocaust and North Africa,” Boum is also a […]
Saadi Gadhafi, the son of the Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi, has been transferred by Niger government to Libya where he will stand trial for charges of embezzlement and armed intimidation when he was head of the Libyan Football Federation. Libyan authorities have been seeking for a long time the custody of the 40-year old fugitive […]
Young Socialist and Social Democratic lawmakers have expressed support for Morocco’s territorial integrity and the autonomy initiative as “the only basis for a just, lasting, and mutually acceptable political situation” to the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara. The supportive stand was expressed in the Final declaration adopted by the third International Forum of Young […]
