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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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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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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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‘Picture an Arab Man’ – breaking down cultural stereotypes
Blog: The View from Fez - 22 April 2012
Vanessa Bonnin reports on the work of Iraqi Canadian photojournalist Tamara Abdul Hadi who has photographed men from Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Sudan, Emirates and Jordan as part of her ‘Picture an Arab Man’ portrait series. Her next stop is Morocco.Started in 2009, Abdul Hadi’s project is meant to literally picture a new face for Arab males, as opposed to the one represented in mainstream media in a post 9/11 world. Since the Arab Spring, her project is more relevant than ever.
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Massive Marches Expected in Morocco
Blog: The View from Fez - 29 March 2012
Moroccan political bodies have called for citizens to take part in the largest march in the Morocco's history - "The March to Jerusalem". The march will take place this coming Sunday with activities on Friday as well. The recent mass marches in Rabat have been seen as the prelude to the Jerusalem march events. Plans for the event include a joint forum with students from Jordan and a declaration of a fast day in efforts to show solidarity with Jerusalem.
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Tahir Shah and the Importance of Thinking Zig-zag
Blog: The View from Fez - 25 March 2012
Critically acclaimed Anglo-Afghan writer, journalist and documentary maker, Tahir Shah, recently met up to talk shop with Fulbright Researcher and Folklore and Djinn enthusiast Sam Gordon at his home in the Fes Medina. Casablanca-based Shah chatted about his hunt for djinns and sorcerers, the importance of thinking zig-zag, and why the Battle of Talas should be people's #1 Time-Machine destination.
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99 Police Injured in Casablanca Bus Accident
Blog: The View from Fez - 18 March 2012
A total of ninety-nine police officers were injured last night in a traffic accident that occurred in Sidi Bernoussi, Casablanca.A crash between two automobiles on the extension of the Rabat-Casablanca motorway caused a pile-up involving five buses transporting police officers Mohammed V Sports Complex for security at the football match between Wydad Casablanca and Kenitra COD Meknes.
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Morocco's Cities Without Slums Project - An Update
Blog: The View from Fez - 15 March 2012
Morocco’s housing deficit stood at roughly 608,000 units in 2011, with a significant shortfall in terms of the availability of government-sponsored accommodation, exacerbated in part by the Kingdom’s move to eliminate shantytowns and shift residents into proper housing.
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The Casablanca Sex Shop Mystery
Blog: The View from Fez - 3 March 2012
"News of the inauguration of a sex shop in the Moroccan city of Casablanca did not stir the ethical and religious controversy expected to take place in a conservative society, but it did take on a political dimension as suspicions arose over an anti-government ploy.
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The Great Female Detective Mystery
Blog: The View from Fez - 2 March 2012
In crime fiction as in real life, it is the detective who is supposed to solve the mystery. However, life is full of mysteries and in this one, the detective is the mystery. Some time ago, the BBC published a story and photographs by Pascale Harter, of one Myriam Marzak, who was touted as being Morocco's first and only female private detective. The View from Fez wrote a charming article about Myriam at the time.
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Cirque du Soleil Brings Saltimbanco to Casablanca
Blog: The View from Fez - 29 February 2012
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Chastity Day - A Good Idea, Or Out Of Touch?
Blog: The View from Fez - 29 February 2012
The call by a prominent Moroccan preacher to mark a national Chastity Day has stirred controversy in Morocco with some advocating the promotion of chastity, others regarding the initiative as an insult to Moroccans and others saying that the call is a dangerous warning of how out of touch with young people some of the older generation are. Ibn Warraq reports from Casablanca
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Casablanca - the Light Rail System is Coming
Blog: The View from Fez - 26 February 2012
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Handy Hints - Arriving in Casablanca
Blog: The View from Fez - 25 February 2012
For many people Casablanca is the city they fly into when visiting Morocco. If you have come from the USA, Australia or New Zealand, jet lag it can make the first few hours little difficult.
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Small Earthquake Felt in Fez
Blog: The View from Fez - 18 February 2012
Did the earth move for you? If you happened to feel a small tremor about half an hour after midnight, then you can blame seismic activity. According to seismologists the quake measured 4.1 on the Richter scale and was located about 70 kilometres North West of Fez. No damage has been reported.
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Cannabis Eradication and Economic Development
Blog: The View from Fez - 15 February 2012
The seizure in early February by the Moroccan Royal Gendarmerie of Temara of almost 12 tons of chira (cannabis resin) is a timely reminder of Morocco's ongoing struggle to eradicate the cannabis industry. The shipment onboard a truck on the A3 highway linking Rabat to Casablanca was discovered when traffic control officers searched a truck ostensibly carrying empty crates. It had travelled from Ksar Lekbir and was bound for Casablanca.
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Casablanca Book Fair 2012
Blog: The View from Fez - 14 February 2012
Despite the fact that writers and publishers are going through a period of crisis in the publishing industry, this year's Casablanca Book Fair is attracting a lot of attention. According to the Office of Fairs and Exhibitions in Casablanca there are around 750 exhibitors are taking part.
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The Last of the Cold Weather in Morocco?
Blog: The View from Fez - 14 February 2012
Average temperatures in Morocco have been far colder than normal but now a change is coming and this week should see a return to the normal averages at this time of year.
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Tunisair Announces More Flights to Morocco
Blog: The View from Fez - 12 February 2012
Tunisian national flag carrier Tunisair has just announced an increase in the number of its flights to Morocco.It will also increase flights to Libya, Algeria and Turkey in summer season (March 26-October 30, 2012).
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Miss Morocco 2012
Blog: The View from Fez - 6 February 2012
On Sunday fifteen contenders took part in the first ever Ms Morocco Beauty Contest. The winner was a 19 year-old student from Casablanca - Sara Moatamad.
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The Belgians Are Coming !
Blog: The View from Fez - 29 January 2012
The tech team at The View from Fez report that we have had a big increase in the number of people from Belgium visiting our pages. We were at a loss to explain this until we discovered (courtesy of Quid in Fès) that Jetairfly, a Belgian airline which is a subsidiary of the largest Belgian tourism group, TUI Belgium, has taken over Jet4You.
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Feats of Memory
Blog: The View from Fez - 29 January 2012
Contestants as young as seven years old often demonstrate the extraordinary ability to memorise the entire 600-page Koran - without actually speaking Arabic.
