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Moroccan Film Death for Sale in Berlin Film Festival
Blog: The View from Fez - 10 February 2012
Faouzi Bensaidi's third film, Death for Sale, despite some mixed reviews, has been a festival success. After premiering at the Toronto Film Festival and closing the Marrakech Film Festival, it is now set to play in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival.
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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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Morocco in the News ~ Press Round-up
Blog: The View from Fez - 28 September 2011
A relatively quiet day in the media. The main focus of attention was ongoing reportage of the death of seven people during a disturbance at a football match in the deep south, the arrest of two men (one British, one Spanish) in possession of a huge amount of hashish and the return to the streets over the weekend of large numbers of protestors.Sailing into Trouble
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Beating the Ban ~ Moroccan Popular Culture Wins Again
Blog: The View from Fez - 11 July 2011
From time to time, conservative groups in Morocco have called for performers to be banned because of their provocative style of dress, their jaunty lyrics or even their lifestyle. Regular readers of The View from Fez will well remember the fuss over Lebanese singer Haifa Wahbi and the attempts to ban Sir Elton John. In the latest incident calls were made to stop a performance by Lebanese singer Nancy Ajram. Ibn Warraq reports.
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Fez Festival Update no.6: Night in the Medina II
Blog: The View from Fez - 20 May 2011
The second Night in the Medina at the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music will take place from 20h00 on Tuesday 7 June. On these evenings, a number of concerts are planned at glorious palaces and riads across the ancient medina, and visitors choose which ones they'd like to see. You can usually manage three concerts as they're no longer than an hour each.
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Tourist Travel in Morocco - Update
Blog: The View from Fez - 10 March 2011
The ongoing unrest in the Middle East and parts of North Africa has caused many travellers to reassess their travel plans. Consequently we have received a large number of enquiries about the safety of travel in Morocco.
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Is it safe to travel to Morocco?
Blog: The View from Fez - 22 February 2011
Despite the odd comment that The View from Fez must be a government mouthpiece, we have to say that the protests in Morocco on Sunday were generally calm and orderly. The police acted with restraint, there was no bombardment of people by airforce jets, no defections by ministers and the King has not fled to Venezuela or anywhere else.
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Postcard from Tetouan
Blog: The View from Fez - 4 November 2010
"It's about to explode", says Maribel Jimenez of Blanco Riad in Tetouan, of tourism in the city. The View from Fez takes a look.
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No-baggage traveller in Fez
Blog: The View from Fez - 5 September 2010
While some airlines restrict you to a mere 15kg of baggage, there's one man travelling the globe with no baggage at all. The View from Fez takes a look.
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King Mohammed VI turns on the power
Blog: The View from Fez - 29 June 2010
Melloussa is thirty-five kilometres from Tangier and you could be forgiven if you have never heard of the place. It's not a tourist attraction, well that is it wasn't until not until Monday when HRH King Mohammed VI turned on the 250-million-euro (300 million dollar) wind farm - the biggest such enterprise in the entire African continent.
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