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Video of Fez Steinbeck Lecture
Blog: The View from Fez - 22 May 2012
The ways in which famous American author John Steinbeck has been influential on Arab authors was the topic of a recent lecture at the American Language Centre in Fez by Hamid Mountassir.
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Morocco's Rocky Road to Halal Certification
Blog: The View from Fez - 22 May 2012
With growth of over 12 per cent per annum since 2004 and a turnover worth 455 billion euros - which is a 16 per cent slice of the global food market - the Halal product market (the word halal means "allowed" by Islamic law) is an attractive one to Morocco's businesses.
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You Don’t Need Money To Enjoy Travel
Blog: Vagobond.com - 22 May 2012
Things to do with little or no money [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Moroccan Americans Take Issue With Royal Air Maroc Prices
Blog: The View from Fez - 21 May 2012
Moroccan's living in America have been protesting for years about the cost of tickets from America to Morocco. Now they have taken the extraordinary step of writing an open letter to Morocco's Prime Minister.
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Rural Literacy Education for Morocco's Women
Blog: The View from Fez - 21 May 2012
Rural education offers Morocco's women the promise of a quiet revolution. Women in remote parts of Morocco are benefiting from a scheme that also teaches civil rights, numeracy and even beekeeping. Santorri Chamley, writing for The Guardian's Poverty Matters blog, reports from Beni Zuli.
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Building More than Bridges in Morocco
Blog: The View from Fez - 21 May 2012
A group of Columbia Engineering students intend to kick off the summer with a six-week stay in Morocco, not as tourists, but as bridge engineers.
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Francine Demeulenaere Exhibition at French Institute in Fez
Blog: The View from Fez - 21 May 2012
The Francine Demeulenaere exhibition opens at the gallery of the French Institute tomorrow - Tuesday, May 22, at 18:30
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Boeing's Dreamliner to Visit Morocco in June
Blog: The View from Fez - 20 May 2012
The Boeing 787 Dream Tour plane, ZA003 (N787BX), is to visit Morocco before it returns to the Boeing test fleet. The reason Morocco is included is that Royal Air Maroc has ordered four of the aircraft.
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Gender Equality - Lesson 101
Blog: The View from Fez - 20 May 2012
Faisal had just finished reading the book "How to be the Man of the House."
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Morocco Rejects UN Sahara Envoy
Blog: The View from Fez - 19 May 2012
Morocco has decided to withdraw its confidence in the personal envoy of the U.N. Secretary-General for the Sahara, Christopher Ross.
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Moroccan Kaftan 2012 - Inspired by Ibn Battuta
Blog: The View from Fez - 19 May 2012
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The Call to Abandon French in Morocco
Blog: The View from Fez - 19 May 2012
Should Morocco abandon the French language? The question is now being openly debated after the government announced it was pushing for more Arabic programming on public television.
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The International Capitol of the Lute
Blog: The View from Fez - 18 May 2012
The international capital of the lute is, according to the organisers of the lute - Tetouan.
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Moroccan News Briefs - #65
Blog: The View from Fez - 18 May 2012
King Mohammed VI stops Islamist reforms in order to preserve image of tolerant Muslim nation
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Melting Moments in the Fez Medina
Blog: The View from Fez - 15 May 2012
The city of Fez (and much of Morocco) has been hit by an unseasonal heatwave. However, winds the past few days have been from the east to northeast, preventing the ocean breeze from developing. To put these temperatures in comparison to normal, the average daily high at the end of June is 26 degrees C. Temperatures will soar above 38 degrees again before some cooler weather returns by the end of the week.
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The Tussle For Control of Moroccan Media Heats Up
Blog: The View from Fez - 13 May 2012
Communications Minister Mustapha El Khalfi, has made the banning of gambling advertisements on television a key theme of his project to reform the audiovisual sector. However, after intervention from HM King Mohammed, the regressive measures are in doubt. The new measures were due to take effect as of May 1 but in light of protests, including from within the government, their implementation has been indefinitely postponed.
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Can Casablanca's Heritage be Saved?
Blog: The View from Fez - 10 May 2012
When the French seized Casablanca in the early 1900s, they turned the historic Moroccan port into a classic of colonial architecture. In the decades since real-estate development and property speculation have reshaped the cityand preservationists are increasingly fretting about what will become of the crumbling French colonial facades, neo-Moorish details and Art Deco hotels.
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Play it Again Sam – Exploring Casablanca’s Hotels
Blog: Vagobond.com - 10 May 2012
Casablanca can be a bitch for hotels. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Another Medina - Another Rabat
Blog: The View from Fez - 10 May 2012
For most travellers, the name “Medina” conjures up images of Fez, Marrakech or maybe Rabat. Of course there are other medinas in other countries, but it did come as a surprise to the team from The View from Fez to discover another Rabat – and one that also had a medina.
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Morocco Reacts to French Election Result
Blog: The View from Fez - 8 May 2012
In the French presidential run-off on Sunday, Francois Hollande took just under 52 percent of votes to defeat conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. Socialist Hollande's win over Sarkozy has been generally welcomed in Morocco.
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Sci-Fi Movie in Fez
Blog: The View from Fez - 5 May 2012
Next Thursday May 10 at 6pm, join film-maker Mike Cahill for a viewing and discussion about his new movie, Another Earth. The screening is to be held at the American Language Center Annex in Fez, as part of the travelling program of the Sundance Film Festival.
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Moroccan Wine - A Thriving Industry
Blog: The View from Fez - 3 May 2012
John Mariani, writing for Bloomberg, has an interesting article about the fact that the Moroccan wine industry is thriving in face of all kinds of challenges.
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Steinbeck Festival in Fez
Blog: The View from Fez - 2 May 2012
If you would like a dose of culture, then this festival may be just the thing. Steinbeck is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and East of Eden (1952) and the novella Of Mice and Men (1937). He was an author of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and five collections of short stories; Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.
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The View from Fez - Technical problems
Blog: The View from Fez - 1 May 2012
A note to our regular readers - The View from Fez is being published via satellite from a ship off the Atlantic coast of Morocco and due to weather our connectivity is marginal. We apologise for the formatting issues and lack of our usual hi-res photographs! Normal transmission will be resumed as soon as possible - probably May 8.
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International Conference on Early Marriage - May 5-6
Blog: The View from Fez - 1 May 2012
The programme of the international conference on early marriage to be held in Palais des Congrès in Fez on May 5-6. Centre ISIS pour Femmes et DéveloppementCOLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL SUR « LE MARIAGE DES FILLES MINEURES : UNE PERSPECTIVE SOCIOCULTURELLE ET JURIDIQUE »Samedi 5 mai 20128: 30 : Accueil des participants 9 :30-Allocution de M. Le Wali de la Région Fès-Boulemane
