First Independent Mena Newspaper
Morocco’s foreign minister Nasser Bourita told his Dutch counterpart Stef Blok that freedom of speech and protest in Al Hoceima is a domestic issue and should not be part of any diplomatic agenda between the two countries. Blok, who paid a visit to Rabat last week, had made in a joint press conference with Bourita […]
Morocco’s Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane topped the ranking of Maghreb universities for the third year in a row. The ranking, established by QS Arab Region University Ranking, includes 100 institutions from different countries in the MENA region. The study found that graduates of Al Akhawayn University have better employment prospects with more chances to […]
The GENIE program, developed by Morocco’s education ministry, won the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for Innovation in Education. Launched in 2005, GENIE is a large-scale, long-term national policy and initiative developed and implemented by the Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research of Morocco, the prize organizers […]
Two years after his much-heralded prostitute drama “Much Loved” was banned in his home country, Moroccan auteur Nabil Ayouch made it to the pre-selection of Oscar 2018 in the Best Foreign Movie with his most ambitious film to date, Razzia, a kaleidoscopic portrait of five lives touched by a single tumultuous event on the streets […]
The film commissions of Andalucia and Tangiers, Italy’s Rome Lazio Film Commission, Spain’s Film Commission, France’s Ile-de-France and the Carthage Film Festival have agreed to foster film industry ties among Mediterranean countries. They have agreed to set up a Euro-Mediterranean Audiovisual Centre. The pact was spearheaded by Lazio Film Commission president Luciano Sovena who has […]
Turkish authorities will launch new Turkish schools in Morocco by next year after they pushed for the shutdown of Gülen schools in January this year, a source close to the Turkish government says. The new schools will open next year, Moroccan daily Al Massae reported Tuesday, quoting Mustapha Ghoukous, a member of Wakef Fund. According […]
King Mohammed VI and his guest King Abdallah II of Jordan inaugurated at the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat the cultural and artistic event “Africa in Capital”, which celebrates African artistic creation. Africa in Capital, which runs until April 28, features a panoply of events including art exhibition, concerts, film […]
Morocco continues to stand as a hub for culture and cinema in a MENA region beset by turmoil and instability. Last year, 24 foreign films were shot in the Kingdom thanks to a solid cinema industry infrastructure and qualified human resources. These films generated returns for Morocco worth 280 mln dirhams, said the national cinema […]
The Moroccan capital city Rabat is readying to welcome a multitude of African artists and culture-lovers to celebrate African multi-faceted culture and also Morocco’s return to the African Union (AU) enacted on January 30. The “Afrique en Capital” festival, to go on from March 28 to April 28, will bring together movie directors, street art […]
Moroccan authorities recovered a stolen 17th century Baroque Italian painting worth up to six million euros and informed Italian authorities. Italian paper Gazzetta di Modena reported that the painting by Giovanni Francesco, known as Guercino, had been stolen from a church in the northern Italian city of Modena in 2014. It could have been recovered […]