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Moroccan Photo of the Day
Blog: The View from Fez - 12 October 2011
The View from Fez welcomes guest contributions. Photographs and stories are welcome, however, due to the large number of submissions, your story or photograph may take a few days to get up!We have long had an interest in Moroccan chameleons and so we are happy to feature this fine photograph by our colleague Derek Workman.
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Photography Exhibition in Fez
Blog: The View from Fez - 11 October 2011
Cafe Clock is the venue for an exciting new exhibition of photographs by the talented young Moroccan Omar Chennafi and American photographer Robert Harrison.
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Moroccan Photo of the Day
Blog: The View from Fez - 11 October 2011
The View from Fez welcomes contributions from our readers and today we would like to thank Donald McKay for submitting this photograph.
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An Artisan in Fez
Blog: The View from Fez - 10 October 2011
Wood turning equipment, as any DIY enthusiast knows, does not come cheaply. However, it does not have to be that way. In the old Medina of Fez, there are thousands of artisans producing beautiful work with the most basic of tools.
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Traditional Moroccan Baby Party in Fez
Blog: The View from Fez - 10 October 2011
The arrival of a baby in a Moroccan family is a great excuse for a party and The View from Fez were delighted to be invited to the celebration for little Hamza.
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Top chef now cooking in the Fez Medina
Blog: The View from Fez - 9 October 2011
If you've been lucky enough to sample chef Vincent Bonnin's cooking at Fez's Majestic; one of several French and Australian restaurants; on a luxury yacht in the Mediterranean, or at an exclusive Greek villa, then you'll know it stands out from the usual fare. He is renowned for his flair and creativity. Suzanna Clarke reports.
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High, Ride and Handsome – by bike in the High Atlas Mountains
Blog: The View from Fez - 8 October 2011
Derek Workman had a vague plan that one day he’d take a long bike-ride through Morocco, but somehow never got around to doing it. Until, that is, he heard about the bike ride that takes place at the end of March every year in the High Atlas Mountains to raise funds for Education For All, a Moroccan-based charity that builds boarding houses for girls from the poorest of families from remote mountain villages to help them continue their education.
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Hidden Waters of Fez ~ Update
Blog: The View from Fez - 7 October 2011
Back in September, The View from Fez reported on the new film project being undertaken by Joe Lukawski (see story here). Now Joe has produced a new video to promote his fundraising efforts. We asked him, why he had released the new video.
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The Fez is Cool !
Blog: The View from Fez - 6 October 2011
Over all the years The View from Fez has been reporting on the Fez Medina, we have never turned our attention to the most famous headgear in the world - the fez. In order to correct that, we sent our team out searching for "the perfect fez". Happily, we can report that our mission did not fail!
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Moroccan Films Raise Questions in Berlin
Blog: The View from Fez - 6 October 2011
According to an article on the Qantara website, many of the films shot in Morocco while ostensibly dealing with the country’s social problems,, they in fact tend to ignore the real social and political ills. The article, written by Irit Neidhardt, was in response to a season of Moroccan films screened in Berlin.
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Tourists Flock Back to Fez
Blog: The View from Fez - 5 October 2011
After a very quiet Ramadan and September, the shopkeepers in the Medina of Fez are heaving a sigh of relief. Mustapha, a tea-house owner, says, "Al Humdullilah! The tourists are back!"
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Nostalgic paintings of the Fez Medina
Blog: The View from Fez - 4 October 2011
Off the Tala Kebira is a small studio filled with vivid oil paintings of Fez. They are the result of a year and a half's work by local painter Abderrahim El Hassani. He has been preparing for an exhibition, Nostalgie, which opens this Friday at Galerie Mohammed Kassimi.
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Marrakech Art Fair
Blog: The View from Fez - 4 October 2011
The Marrakech Art Fair has just closed, but all reports indicate that the event's founder,Vanessa Devereux, is extremely pleased with the positive reception for this year's event. As we reported back in August, the art fair has been given great support, with 45 international galleries exhibiting their major artists and 20 additional galleries joining the 2010 exhibitors.
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First-timer's guide to Marrakech
Blog: The View from Fez - 3 October 2011
Respected travel writer and co-publisher at Eland travel books, Barnaby Rogerson takes a look at Marrakech and reports on what the first-time visitor can expect.
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Photograph of the Day ~ Morocco
Blog: The View from Fez - 2 October 2011
The View from Fez is very happy to post a fabulous photograph by the talented young Moroccan photographer, Omar Chennafi. Not only does Omar have a great eye for composition and framing, but he is also responsible for promoting photographic art through the Alif Photography Club on Facebook.
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High Drama at Tissa Horse Festival
Blog: The View from Fez - 1 October 2011
The View from Fez team arrived in Tissa in the early morning. Festivities and competition was not due to start until around 9.30 am, so we spent time chatting with locals and checking out the magnificent horses as they were prepared for the big event - the Fantasia.
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Education for the Girls of the High Atlas in Morocco
Blog: The View from Fez - 30 September 2011
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If You Love Sufi Music... check this out
Blog: The View from Fez - 30 September 2011
For those lucky enough to be able to tune in to BBC 3 this Sunday at 2200, Lucy Duran presents Sufi music from around the world recorded at the recent Transcender Festival at the Barbican in London. "The Ecstatic Journey: Music from around the Sufi world" was one evening gathering together classical traditions, ascetic mediations and exultant celebrations into a single, kaleidoscopic concert showcasing the Sufi songs of Morocco, Pakistan, India and Indonesia.
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Tissa Horse Festival ~ Sneak Preview
Blog: The View from Fez - 29 September 2011
Tomorrow (Friday) sees the start of the Tissa Horse Festival. Thanks to our colleague, the photographer Gerard Chemit, we are able to bring you a preview of the preparations in Tissa.
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Join The View from Fez at the Tissa Horse Festival !
Blog: The View from Fez - 29 September 2011
This Saturday, The View from Fez team are heading to the Tissa Horse Festival. We have four places available, leaving at 7am from Fez, spending the day in Tissa and returning from Tissa around 5 pm.If you would like to join us, please email: theviewfromfez@gmail.com for all the details.
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The Tissa Horse Festival - Latest Update
Blog: The View from Fez - 28 September 2011
The View from Fez team are in debt to Michele of the travel company Yomikha Morocco who sent someone to Tissa to check. The latest news is that the first day of the festival is this Friday - September 30th. The festival (we are told) is now only two days and Saturday October 1 is the final day.
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Important Breakthrough for Moroccan Bird Life
Blog: The View from Fez - 28 September 2011
A workshop to develop a roadmap for the transition of BirdLife engagement in Morocco from a country programme to the typical NGO representation was held at the Hotel Ibis in Rabat over the last few days.
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Volubilis Visitor Centre ~ Progress at last?
Blog: The View from Fez - 28 September 2011
The Visitor Centre at Volubilis seems to have been under construction for years. According to locals the problems centred around non-payment of contractors.
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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
