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Morocco Loses Two Legendary Musicians
Blog: The View from Fez - 30 January 2012
On January the 17th this year two of Morocco’s musical legends, Mohamed Sousdi and Mohamed Rouicha passed away. Imad Estito, writing for the Arabic daily Al-Akhbar, today published a celebration of their contributions to the North African music of the marginalised.
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The Alchemy of Poetic Space- Majoubi Aherdan Exhibits in Rabat
Blog: The View from Fez - 30 January 2012
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Sunrise Over The Dunes
Blog: Hecktic Travels - 30 January 2012
A lifetime highlight: watching the sun come up over desert dunes.
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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.
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Morocco - 5th Most Active Twitter User in Africa
Blog: The View from Fez - 28 January 2012
In a follow-up to our look at mobile phone use in Morocco, we are in debt to the "Notebook", the blog run by Portland for a look at Twitter. Portland is an independent consultancy involved in strategic communications, public affairs, international affairs and digital research.
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Mariah Carey at Morocco's Mawazine Festival 2012
Blog: The View from Fez - 28 January 2012
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William S. Burroughs – Junkie Vagabond
Blog: Vagobond.com - 28 January 2012
William S. Burroughs - no other name rings so loudly in the annals of extraordinary literary vagabonds of the 20th century. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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Into The Sahara: My Camel Hates Me
Blog: Hecktic Travels - 27 January 2012
I got stuck with a Canadian-Woman-Hating camel.
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Morocco's Mobile Phone Mania
Blog: The View from Fez - 26 January 2012
What is it with mobile phones in Morocco? If you believed the statistics, then Morocco, with a population of around 32 million has 36.55 million mobile phone users at the end of 2011. That is more phones than people in the Kingdom. Compared to 2010, this is a growth rate of 14.29 percent giving the country a penetration rate of 113.57 percent.
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Moroccan Students For American Exchange Programme
Blog: The View from Fez - 25 January 2012
If you are a young Moroccan student at high school or university and have ever wanted to study in the United States, tomorrow night there is an opportunity to find out more about the wide variety of exchange programmes available.
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Contrasts of Morocco
Blog: Hecktic Travels - 25 January 2012
The staggering contrasts in Morocco: landscapes, culture and people.
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Winter in the Sahara
Blog: The View from Fez - 23 January 2012
Venturing into the Sahara during winter can be challenging. But as today's guest post from intrepid travellers, Mary Finnigan and partner Chris Gilchrist, shows - there is poetry to be found everywhere and at any time of year.
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The Not-Very-Moroccan Mall
Blog: The View from Fez - 23 January 2012
The construction of the Morocco Mall was a massive undertaking. The site manager, Salwa Idrissi Akhannouch, says that 100,000 people were involved in the construction and that, to date, the shopping centre has created 5,000 direct jobs and 21,000 indirect jobs. "It is something the nation can be really proud of," Akhannouch said. At the time of the opening, the outgoing Trade Minister, Ahmend Reda Chani, was also upbeat, "The mega-complex could turn Casablanca into a major shopping destination like Dubai," he said.
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The Night Market in Marrakech
Blog: Hecktic Travels - 23 January 2012
Our exploration of the chaotic night market and all we encountered.
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Morocco's Foreign Minister to Visit Algeria
Blog: The View from Fez - 22 January 2012
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Meetings in Marrakech: the paintings of Hassan El Glaoui and Winston Churchill
Blog: The View from Fez - 21 January 2012
One of Churchill's Moroccan landscapesA small exhibition of paintings in London is getting big reviews, not only for the art, but also the unlikely but ch
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"Hidden Waters" documentary: Director's Update
Blog: The View from Fez - 20 January 2012
In September 2011, The View from Fez asked filmmaker Joe Lukawski about his new project in Fez and he told us - "Les eaux cachées, or Hidden Waters will take the shape of a 52 minute documentary film, produced over the next nine months in and around Fez to address the issues of water conservation and the urban restoration taking place around Fez’s waters.
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Morocco's New Government Falls Short on Gender Equity
Blog: The View from Fez - 20 January 2012
The new government of Abdelilah Benkirane has received a reasonable reception in most areas.
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Saad-Eddine El Othmani: Morocco's Minister Of Foreign Affairs
Blog: The View from Fez - 20 January 2012
The new face of Moroccan diplomacy is Saad-Eddine Othmani. Born in 1956 in Inezgane near Agadir he earned a Doctorate in Medicine from the Hassan II University of Casablanca in 1986, and in psychiatry in 1994. He also holds Master and DEA degrees in Islamic studies. In 2004, and after the withdrawal from politics of Abdelkrim Alkhatib, Saad- Eddine Othmani became the head of the Justice and Development Party.
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Fez restaurant destroyed
Blog: The View from Fez - 19 January 2012
A devastating fire has swept through a well known restaurant in Fez, resulting in total destruction. The fire began last Saturday night at 10.40pm and by 2am on Sunday Restaurant Al Firdaous, at Bab Guissa, was a smouldering ruin.
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International Spotlight on Fez Real Estate
Blog: The View from Fez - 19 January 2012
After a very quiet time in the Moroccan real estate market, things look set to change. One early indicator is that major media players are giving space to stories about buying property in Morocco. From airline inflight magazines to the lofty heights of the New York Times, journalists are pointing to Morocco as a good place to invest.
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Football Fever in Fez
Blog: The View from Fez - 18 January 2012
On a night when the French Institute screened the brilliant black and white, silent movie, The Artist, returning home was a surreal experience. It was as though the outside world had become an extension of the movie. The streets surrounding the glorious old Rex Cinema in Avenue Slaoui, were eerily deserted.
