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Jesus’s birthplace Bethlehem marks Christmas in restive Mideast
Bethlehem (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Thousands of worshippers and tourists from around the world flocked Tuesday to Jesus's birthplace in Bethlehem, as the Middle East reels from conflicts and...
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Youth Views on the Forum Stocktaking of youth employability in Morocco
By Imane Bouhazaama and Asmae Lahlou Rabat - On December 6th and 7th 2013, Crisis Management Initiative (an Initiative of Former Finland President & Nobel Prize Winner Martii Ahtisaari), in...
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Watch out! Extremely dangerous spam SMS being circulated
Taroudant- According to Lemag, many phone users in Morocco reported that they were victims of an extremely dangerous spam SMS, which is being circulated these days. The mobile owners have received an...
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Morocco: two officers injured while chasing a drug dealer
Casablanca- According to the Moroccan daily Al Massae, two police officers were injured Friday 27 in Tangier whilst attempting to get their hands on the city’s biggest drug dealers. According to the...
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Iraqi Prime Minister says Qiblah for prayer should be Kerbala not Mecca
Taroudant- According to AlArabaiya, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said that the Shiite holy city of Kerbala must be the Qibla - direction, towards which Muslims pray – instead of the Kaaba in...
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A Moroccan Prostitute shares her Experience on TV
Casablanca - Broadcast on Morocco’s Medi1 TV channel, TV Show “Kissat A’naas” is known for raising eyebrows with the breathtaking, shocking experiences its guests share with Moroccan viewers. A taboo...
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Car driver hits Casablanca tramway
Casablanca- According to the Moroccan daily Aujourd’hui le Maroc a cab driver on Sunday hit Casablanca tramway. The driver, who was allegedly drunk, hit the tramway on Sunday morning before running...
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Half a day at the Field Museum, Chicago
Inezgan, Morocco- I love visiting museums and universities. For one thing, both places in general contain or ought to contain the essence of knowledge, science and wisdom coupled with artifacts,...
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A teacher’s story of injustice in Morocco’s educational system
By Ouafae Bennis Sale, Morocco - While I was talking about some teachers’ situations and conditions, I was stupefied to hear that a teacher suffered a lot when he was robbed in odd circumstances. I was...
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Community-Based Learning: Five Pieces of Advice for Interns in Morocco
Florida - For the first semester of my junior year of college, I decided to study abroad in Rabat. One of my courses was called “Community-Based Learning”, of which one component was an unpaid position...
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Peace Corps volunteer Alina Urbanic Morocco-bound
By Melody Burri Canandaigua, N.Y. Alina Urbanic, 20, of Victor, has been accepted into the Peace Corps and will depart for Morocco Jan. 13 to begin training as a youth asset builder volunteer. The...
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Marrakech: fight at a VIP club between Moroccans and Saudis
Casablanca- There are times when too much excitement turns celebrations into chaotic battlefields. This is what happened in one of Marrakech’s glamorous nightclubs, where fistfights erupted between a...
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Morocco: rapist of a 14-year-old sentenced only to 5 months
Casablanca- Rapists in Morocco seem to benefit considerably from theleniency of the judicial system. Recently in Fez, a Moroccan family was shocked to hear that their 14-year-old daughter’s rapist was...
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Moroccan-French politician Rachida Dati allegedly converts to Christianity
Casablanca- According to French magazine VSD, France’s former Minister of Justice and current Mayor of the 7th "arrondissement" of Paris, the Moroccan-French Rachida Dati, has allegedly converted to...
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British Muslims attack “draconian” proposals
LONDON- "Government proposals will tighten stranglehold on Britain's Muslims" IHR A London based Muslim Human Rights Organisation has attacked the government’s proposal to tackle terrorism saying that...
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In Memory of Moroccan Freedom Fighter Saida Lemnabhi
Rabat - She said in a letter to her parents: Remember me with joy. My body might be behind the dreary bars but my strong soul breaks the prison’s walls, its locked gate, my shackles and the...
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Morocco: Frenchman arrested for insulting police officers
Rabat- Judiciary police have arrested a French national on Saturday after he assaulted a group of policemen in the city of Kenitra. According to the Moroccan daily Al Massae in its edition of Monday,...
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Divorced Women in Moroccan society
Casablanca- At the age of 35, Tarik, a young Moroccan who works for a press agency in Casablanca, finally decided to share his life with a soul mate for better or worse till death do them part. Not...
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Defamation via social media in Morocco
By Mly Abdellah TAIBI Ouarzazate- After the so-called “revolution” of social media, mainly Facebook and YouTube, some buried social phenomena and societal illnesses began appearing and are now...
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Microfinance in Morocco: At the Limits of ‘Social Business’
By Mari Miyoshi* Fez- It was a bright day in Fes, but the streets of Aouinate Hajjaj were still muddy from yesterday’s rain. Yacine and I avoided puddles as we navigated the neighborhood, a poor area...
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