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Moroccan couscous - the traditional way
Blog: The View from Fez - 2 November 2009
Couscous, or seksu as it's know in Moroccan Arabic, is one of the staple foods of the Maghreb. It's made of ground semolina that's moistened and rolled in flour.
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Lion-spotting in Fez
Blog: The View from Fez - 31 October 2009
Two larger-than-life bronze lions were installed by the City of Fez in celebration of Eid al-Fitr last month.
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Abducted Blackpool sisters in Fez - update
Blog: The View from Fez - 29 October 2009
The 32-year-old mother of Carene, 12, and Shelby, 10, has been extradited from Spain to the UK and is remanded in custody.
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Recipe for Moroccan kefta tagine
Blog: The View from Fez - 27 October 2009
One of our favourite Moroccan dishes is a kefta tagine - delicately spiced meatballs in a robust tomato sauce with eggs poached on top. It's best eaten in a Moroccan home (if you're lucky enough to be invited), but is also a firm favourite at most medina restaurants.
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The Finns are coming!
Blog: The View from Fez - 26 October 2009
The language skills of Morocco's street kids have always been impressive. It is not unusual for them to have few words of greeting in almost any language you can imagine. However, even The View from Fez was impressed the other day to hear a eight or nine year old on hearing that the young backpacker was from Helsinki, smiled and said "tervetuloa - terve poika!"
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Is Royal Air Maroc going to drop Atlas Blue?
Blog: The View from Fez - 23 October 2009
The View from Fez is in debt to our reader Andrea Massa for alerting us to the latest news from the sky.Royal Air Maroc Light?
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Moroccan Aid - a different perspective.
Blog: The View from Fez - 22 October 2009
When you hear the words "Morocco" and "aid", is your immediate assumption that Morocco is on the receiving end? If so, you could be wrong. International aid is a two way street and Morocco has a long history of supporting nations in trouble. Our guest commentator, Ibn Warraq, takes up the story:
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Moroccan News Briefs
Blog: The View from Fez - 21 October 2009
Swine Flu toll hits 173 on October 20Morocco's H1N1 documented cases reached 173 up to October 20, according to Health Minister, Yasmina Baddou (pictured left).
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Fez Festival loses its Artistic Director
Blog: The View from Fez - 21 October 2009
The View from Fez has just learned that Gerard Kurdjian, Artistic Director of the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music, has resigned.
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Fes Festival of Sufi Culture 2010
Blog: The View from Fez - 19 October 2009
Par Chemins has announced the 2010 dates of the ever-popular Sufi Festival: 17-24 April.
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Pressure on Morocco over snatched children.
Blog: The View from Fez - 17 October 2009
In an update to our story (see here: Sisters in Fez) about the two children who were snatched by their British mother and who then left them in Morocco, we can report that the mother, Trudy Crofts, has lost her fight against extradition back to the UK. Crofts is in prison in Spain after she was arrested for taking her daughters Carene and Shelby out of the country.
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Moroccan News Briefs
Blog: The View from Fez - 17 October 2009
President Sarkozy hosts reception for HM King Mohammed VI
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Abducted Blackpool sisters in Fez
Blog: The View from Fez - 14 October 2009
UK newspapers allege that sisters Carene, 12, and Shelby, 10, have been brought to Fez where they are being cared for by the family of their mother's Moroccan partner.Grandmother Rita Astbury has custody of the girls in Blackpool, northern England. But recently their natural mother and Rita's daughter, Trudy Crofts, abducted them and flew them to Spain from where they were taken to Fez.
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Moroccan Argan Oil - fashion and fair trade
Blog: The View from Fez - 13 October 2009
Though the Berber people of southwestern Morocco have used Argan oil for centuries in their cuisine and for medicinal and cosmetic purposes, it has only been within the last decade that argan oil has become known to the outside world. In that time the prices of Argan oil have sky-rocketed. So, how much is Argan oil actually worth? In fact, that is not really the correct question. The question should be, "who is making money out of this Moroccan export?".
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New School of Architecture in Fez
Blog: The View from Fez - 12 October 2009
Until now, there's only been one school of architecture in Morocco, based in Rabat but today sees the inauguration of the Ecole Nationale d'Architecture (ENA) in Fez.
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Saturday Morning in the Fez Medina
Blog: The View from Fez - 12 October 2009
In this week's guest post on the wonderful Ever The Nomad blog, Lonely Planet writer Helen Ranger of The View of Fez takes you for a Saturday morning wander around her adopted city of Fez in Morocco. Join Helen on a stroll through the medina and find out what a typical day in Fez looks like.Here is a taste... for the entire article follow the link at the end of the extract.
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King Mohammed VI orders restoration of Tijania house
Blog: The View from Fez - 9 October 2009
H.M. King Mohammed VI has given instructions to repair and restore the house of the founder of the Tarika Tijania (Sufi order), Cheikh Sidi Ahmed Tijani. The order was announced by Ahmed Toufiq, Minister of Habous and Islamic affairs on Thursday. Addressing an international symposium on the occasion of the bicentenary of Sidi Ahmed Tijani's demise, Toufiq said he was in charged by His Majesty to launch the works to renovate the house, known as "Dar Meraya".
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Moroccan News Briefs
Blog: The View from Fez - 9 October 2009
Fez Jazz in Riad Festival 2009« Let the Jazz burn, to each of these terms, for it sets us ablaze… » Leitmotiv of the top of the line of the Fez Jazz in Riad Festival 2009.The 2009 edition of the Fez, Jazz in the Riads Festival kicks off today and runs until the 11th. Mohamed Kabbaj, President of Spirit of Fez Foundation has this to say about the festival:
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Wine-tasting in Morocco
Blog: The View from Fez - 8 October 2009
Domaine de la Zouina is a wine- and olive-producing estate just outside Meknes.The View from Fez went to visit this week to taste the wines.
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Moroccan olive harvest approaches
Blog: The View from Fez - 7 October 2009
Moulay Idriss is famous for its olive oil, and this week The View from Fez visited the town to take a look at the olive press.
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Moroccans warned of swine-flu during the Hajj
Blog: The View from Fez - 6 October 2009
With many Moroccans intending to make the trip to Mecca for the Hajj, here is a timely warning from the Saudi government about the risks of swine flu.
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A Couscous Cooking Story.
Blog: The View from Fez - 2 October 2009
There are hundreds of people blogging about their travels in Morocco and, as you might expect, they vary in quality. Once in a while we see a story that we really like and today we have such a one from Megan O'Keefe. Megan's account of her culinary adventure in Fez was published in The New Gastronomes, a student blog from the University of Gastronomic Sciences.
