Marhaba 2016: Over 528,000 Passengers Return to Morocco via Tangier-Med Port
Tangiers – Some 528.731 passengers returned to Morocco via the Tangiers Med Port since the beginning of the Marhaba operation 2016 on June 5and until July 31, a 16% rise compared with the same period...
View ArticleIran Postpones Civil Service Exam Over Claims of Gender Discrimination
By Alexandra Krauska Rabat – The President of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, postponed the civil service entry examination and ordered an examination of the tests to determine if they are biased against women....
View ArticleMoroccan Police Receive Instructions to Shoot Criminals Threatening People’s...
Rabat – Morocco’s Directorate of National Security (DGSN) sent out strict instructions to Moroccan security officers to use their weapons against delinquents and criminals in possession of weapons,...
View ArticleFrench President Rejects Proposal to Allocate Public Funding to Mosques
Rabat – French President Francois Hollande said that mosques in France are not publicly funded. This statement came as a response to an article published on Tuesday in the newspaper “Libération” in...
View ArticleTrump Calls Sexually Harassed Women ‘Complainers,’ Insinuates They’re Weak
By Tatiana Flowers Rabat – Donald Trump has angered scores of people on many occasions, often making derogatory statements about Muslims, Mexicans, people with disabilities, and women, and once again,...
View ArticleLondon: Knife Attack Kills Woman, Wounds 5 Other People
London – One person was killed and five were wounded Wednesday night in a knife attack in London, the Metropolitan Police said. The police said they were called around 10:30 p.m. about a man with a...
View ArticleCorrespondent Expelled in French Church due to his Moroccan Origin
Rabat – A 46-year-old French-Moroccan correspondent at French news website Ouest France was expelled from Saint-Nicolas de Châteaubriant church in France last Sunday by two Gendarmes due to his...
View ArticleBelgian Politicians Condemn Racist Comments After Death of a Teenager of...
By Alexandra Krauska Rabat – Several Flemish ministers have publicly criticized the racist comments of other Belgians after the death of a teenager during a vacation in Morocco. Ramzi Mohammad...
View ArticleVideo: King Mohammed VI Honors Two Top High School Students in Morocco
Rabat – On the 17th anniversary of his coronation, known as Throne Day, Morocco’s King Mohammed VI awarded two young Moroccan women who had received the highest baccalaureate exam scores in the country...
View ArticleBritish Muslim Arrested at UK Airport for Reading Book Written in Arabic
Rabat – A British Muslim NHS worker was detained at a UK airport and questioned under terror laws after a cabin crew member reported her reading a Syrian culture book on board her honeymoon flight,...
View ArticleFormer French Minister Cites Morocco as Best Example of Fighting Extremism
Rabat – Rama Yade, France’s former Minister of Sports and current candidate for the French presidential elections, 2017, cited Morocco last Monday as a paragon of combatting extremism and Salafism...
View ArticleMoroccan Culture: A Complexity of Ironies
By Ikrame Chibani Rabat – Growing up as a female in Morocco, I, as any other person of my age, developed the habit to take some aspects of Moroccan culture for granted. Even worse, at some age I...
View ArticleKing Mohammed VI Pardons Moroccan Woman Sentenced to Death
Rabat – Khadija Amrir, a 43-year-old woman was released from prison on the Morocco’s public holiday known as “Throne Day” after her sentence was commuted by King Mohammed VI. She had received a death...
View Article14,000 People Arrested in Less than a Week in Tangier
By Ashley Okwuosa Rabat – 1,400 people were arrested in Tangier between July 27 and August 3 for their alleged involvement in a host of criminal cases, according to the Moroccan authorities. A majority...
View ArticleFive Moroccans Who Restore Your Faith in Humanity
By Asmae Habchaoui Rabat – I recently got into a cab in Rabat city, and as it usually happens with Moroccan taxi drivers, he shared with me a life lesson. The moral from his story was “Moroccans are no...
View ArticleMoroccan Coach Given Two Months in Prison For Sexually Assaulting Swedish...
Fez – The Gothenburg First Instance Court in Sweden sentenced a Moroccan junior football team coach on Tuesday to two months in prison for sexually assaulting three 16-year-old girls outside Ullevi...
View ArticleDriss Chberreq: Tales of a Tazmamart Inmate
By Salma Belhajj’Ali Kenitra – This author’s prison literature fascinates the Moroccan readers of today, thirsty to know of their past. Driss Tayyib Chberreq is an author who survived the darkness of...
View ArticleSyrian Refugee to Be Crowned Regional Wine Queen in Germany
By Asmaa Bahadi Rabat – Ninorta Bahno, the Syrian refugee who defied the stereotypes of a typical blond wine-maker in a dirndl, was crowned regional wine queen in Trier, a city in western Germany,...
View ArticleSahara Spirit Foundation: Time to Create the Rain
By Fadoua El Hmaydi Rabat – The Sahara Spirit Foundation, who’s headquarters are based in Laayoune city, Morocco, believes that the preeminent manner to unlock human potential is through the power of...
View ArticleFrench Halal Store Forced to Sell Alcohol and Pork
By Asmaa Bahadi Rabat – The local authorities in Colombes, France forced a Halal supermarket, Good Price, to sell pork and alcohol or else be shut down. Halal stores in France have no choice but to...
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