First Independent Mena Newspaper
Twenty four individuals charged of committing violent acts in November 2010 during a protest movement in a makeshift camp at Gdim Izik and in Laayoune, Western Sahara, are appearing before a military court in Rabat this Friday. The 24 defendants, all native of the Moroccan Southern Provinces, are charged with igniting violent clashes with security […]
Dale F. Eickelman, Ralph and Richard Lazarus Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations at Dartmouth College and chair of the Department of Anthropology, has been elected President of the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM) in replacement of I. William Zartman. Pr. Eickelman was elected to the position by TALIM’s Board of Directors […]
Morocco is celebrating this week Algerian culture through the organization of many cultural events including plastic art, book and artifact exhibitions, plays performances, films screenings, music concerts and shows, poetry readings and lectures. A 114 strong Algerian cultural delegation, including musicians, choral singers, ballet dancers, writers and poets, is taking part in the week-long event […]
How important has been the role that social media have played in the Arab Spring uprisings and the subsequent democratic transformation affecting the North African region? This is a question that has been hotly contested in both policy-making and academic circles essentially ever since a Tunisian fruit vendor’s act of self-immolation swiftly wreaked havoc with […]
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 Twitter. The rock-drawing depicting the animistic divinity of the sun is one of thousands of stone carvings in the High Atlas and Anti-Atlas Mountains. Print and online newspapers repeated these rumors, […]
Abdurrahman, 30, graduated from college two years ago. Immediately after graduation he started the grueling job search process. First he applied for the public sector and took part in many hiring competitions but failed in them all. Then he sent his résumé to private employers but most of the time he received no answer and […]
When in Rabat, Casablanca or any site on the Atlantic coast, go to the seashore, and sit there for a while watching the ocean, and dream….The experience might inspire you some beautiful poem or, at least, if you are an admirer of English poetry, bring to the surface of your mind some words woven by […]
The United States and Morocco have launched on Thursday in Washington the first round of a strategic dialog meant to boost longstanding relations between the two countries, at a time the region is at grips with insecurity. This strategic dialog that is triggering a new phase in a centuries-old partnership covers political, economic and cultural […]