“Google: From a University Project to a Giant Company,” a recent book by a...
Casablanca - Zakaria Sahnoune, a Moroccan researcher, has recently published a book in Arabic about Google search engine, according to MAP. Entitled “Google: From a University Project to a Giant...
View ArticleKing Mohamed VI inked a $600 million deal to host F1Grand Prix: report
Rabat - Morocco has reportedly been emerged as a strong contender to join the Formula One calendar. Germany’s Bild newspaper reported that Formula One chief executive Bernie Ecclestone revealed in...
View ArticleSyria, the Target of Wrong Analysis from West and East
Washington - "If some long beard comes along and said I’m going to blow up “Mukhabrat” headquarters or I’m going to take out a bus with “shabeha” and kill myself in the process, at this stage in the...
View ArticleMoroccan Jews Live in the Best Situation thanks to King’s Efforts
Casablanca- Morocco has always been a land of peaceful coexistence for different communities, regardless of their origins, customs, systems of beliefs, and social and cultural peculiarities. Although...
View ArticleHRW Urges Morocco to Revise a Draft Law on Domestic Workers
Casablanca- Human Rights Watch urges Moroccan government to revise a pending draft law in parliament regarding legal protection of domestic workers. In a recent letter to Mr. Abdeslam Seddiki,...
View ArticleFamous Algerian singer Idir calls for independence of Kabylia
Taroudant- Famous Algerian singer called for the independence of region of Kabiliya, noting that Algerian Tamazight can’t live their culture or their identity under Algerian sovereignty. In an...
View ArticleExperts React to King Mohammed VI’s Visit to the White House
Casablanca- Following King Mohammed VI’s meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama, different media witnessed an outflow of comments and speculations, by political scientists, academics, and observers...
View ArticleMorocco’s Proposed “Anti-Israeli” Law causes concern in Israel
Casablanca- The Moroccan government has shown interest in considering legislations that would incriminate any contact with Israel. The proposed legislations caused concern in Israel, mainly manifested...
View ArticleRural women in Morocco: some aspects of their everlasting predicament
By Lahcen Ait Idir Azilal, Morocco, Malika, a rural woman from Azilal, 163 kilometers north east of Marrakech, told me once: “we, women, are the most oppressed group by society and the State.” This...
View ArticleSpeculations on a probable future destruction of the internet
Kenitra, Internet after all is not without enemies… The Internet has become the Archimedean point in our daily life. Almost nothing gets done without it nowadays. The more we rely on it, the more it...
View ArticleThe Islamic World: Questions on Identity
The serious reader must be prepared to think in novel ways. To this end, he must be prepared to absorb as readily as possible a whole range of new concepts and terms. Otherwise he cannot expect to...
View ArticleReflections on the educational system in Morocco
By Nouh Anajjar Nador - Education has always proved to be crucial and essential in every governmental policy in order to thrust the wheels of progress forward. Most of the world’s countries have come...
View ArticleLack of legal protection for victims of violence in Morocco
Rabat- ‘‘Moroccan law is full of contradictions,’’ Bouchra Abdou says through a translator. ‘‘Men and women are now recognised as equal by the constitution but there are articles that contradict this...
View ArticleRaising a bilingual child in America: Is Arabic acquisition affected by wrong...
New Jersey - In my opinion Arabic is more ideal than any other language on earth because it is ancient, economical, simple, elegant and more eloquent. It was chosen to be the language of the Quran,...
View ArticleThe Palestine Cause: Its Treatment in the Arabic Curriculum
Ifrane - Since the the Arab spring burst its way into the news two years ago, the cause of Palestine has been upstaged and virtually expunged from media coverage and political negotiations. While...
View ArticleIs globalization a postmodern form of imperialism?
Rabat Victors’ history Since the end of the Cold War in 1991 and the “defection” of the Russian Federation to the “Free World,” and the fall of the Wall of Berlin, the West has been busy marketing what...
View ArticleEgypt and the Animal Farm of George Orwell
I was made, by the law, a criminal, not because of what I had done, but because of what I stood for, because of what I thought, because of my conscience. Nelson Mandela In depth, The Animal Farm; one...
View ArticleLifting Ban on Hijab in Turkey: A Stealth Step toward Islamism or Evolution...
Cairo - After about 90 years of ban on wearing Hijab in the state institutions in Turkey, the government has issued a law lifting the longstanding ban on wearing Hijab in the public entities except the...
View ArticleLessons from America: a Moroccan woman’s story
Boston- I still remember that day—the song playing on the radio, the sun shining all around me, and the excitement that grew with every passing moment as my brother picked me up from JFK airport, fresh...
View ArticleWar’s ghosts
Rabat - “…weak and panicked, I only wanted one thing: leave everything behind.” Adham is 26 years old, single, with brown hair, clear green eyes, and thick black eyebrows. He is dressed as the...
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