tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21097152358740130822024-03-06T14:01:14.603-06:00Reading Moroccosumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.comBlogger345125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-20566466139025321872021-05-21T18:29:00.023-05:002021-05-21T18:34:16.170-05:00Reading as an Act of Resistance ?<p> <a href="https://thearabweekly.com/moroccan-publishers-promote-reading-act-resistance" target="_blank">Here is an article</a> from the Arab Weekly (Oct 2020) on publishers in Morocco trying to promote reading (and therefore buying books) in conjunction with a celebration of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_March" target="_blank">Green March</a>. </p><p>______________________________________________</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Moroccan publishers promote reading as ‘act of resistance’
</h3><p>RABAT- The Union of Moroccan Publishers will launch an initiative titled “reading is an act of resistance” on November 6 to commemorate the 45th anniversary of Morocco’s Green March.<br /><br /> The Green March is a mass demonstration organised by tens of thousands of Moroccans in November 1975 to call on Spain to return the Western Sahara to Moroccan sovereignty. <br /><br />“Publishers, readers, writers and everyone who is interested in books and reading are invited to participate in this initiative that will last until December 20,” the Union of Moroccan Publishers said in a statement. </p><p><a href="https://thearabweekly.com/moroccan-publishers-promote-reading-act-resistance" target="_blank">FULL ARTICLE</a></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://fastly.4sqi.net/img/general/2000x1080/10590361_ncsa1oJccJyYE25wA8rbfHeIUkBiqk1llq_d7fV7IJk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="543" height="233" src="https://fastly.4sqi.net/img/general/2000x1080/10590361_ncsa1oJccJyYE25wA8rbfHeIUkBiqk1llq_d7fV7IJk.jpg" width="432" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">credit: Librarie Tazi (Casablanca, Morocco)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p><p></p><p><br /></p>sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-45295328325289341052020-09-19T20:05:00.001-05:002020-09-19T20:05:35.435-05:00Book Piracy in Morocco <p>Here is an <b> <span class="ILfuVd NA6bn"><span class="hgKElc"></span></span></b><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn"><span class="hgKElc">Agence France-Presse</span></span><a href="https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/culture/2018/10/02/moroccan-book-trade"> article</a> from 2018 about what was then a thriving trade in pirated books in Morocco. Somehow we missed it then, but one wonders what the situation is now. </p><p>___________ <br /></p><div class="headline story-pg">
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Thriving trade in pirated reads vexes Moroccan bookshops</h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnyNqcwad0_nYBMOjKuAXNABq2KLuFbsUQbhpKawUOcMg9E_WdN6uL0ljUCgVVsyfUYVsqEPTwBswj_yQwDhokkIlx8pb8tvpRylgzFK7UVxWhRuytMMM0yWF5l6UlzEX0ufTN4Ae7d0Y/s500/bookseller.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnyNqcwad0_nYBMOjKuAXNABq2KLuFbsUQbhpKawUOcMg9E_WdN6uL0ljUCgVVsyfUYVsqEPTwBswj_yQwDhokkIlx8pb8tvpRylgzFK7UVxWhRuytMMM0yWF5l6UlzEX0ufTN4Ae7d0Y/s320/bookseller.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></h3><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Tuesday, 02 Oct 2018 </span></h4></div><p> With a backpack filled with pirated books, Khalid wanders the streets
of Rabat peddling cheap reads – part of a flourishing black market
eliciting howls of protest from Moroccan bookshop owners.</p><p>“It’s
true that it’s not legal, but the price of these books attracts
readers,” says Khalid, 25, who hawks his wares at cafes in Morocco's
capital.</p><p>A little more than a
year ago, he sold pirated DVDs, but Khalid says that market was hit when
it became possible to watch films on a smartphone.</p><p>One of a large
number of young Moroccans working informally in a country with high
youth unemployment, he quickly found bookselling the only way to make a
living.</p><p>Along the main streets of Rabat’s historical centre, dozens of other street vendors sell books in Arabic, English and French.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/culture/2018/10/02/moroccan-book-trade" target="_blank">FULL ARTICLE</a><br /></p>sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-4987677771409728322020-08-10T05:36:00.000-05:002020-08-10T05:36:19.480-05:00Book Review of Tazmamart by Aziz Binebine <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/15/tazmamart-by-aziz-binebine-review-life-in-a-secret-prison" target="_blank">Here is a review</a> of the book Tazmamart by Aziz Binebine, a memoir of his experience in the now infamous Moroccan secret prison with that name.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://d1w7fb2mkkr3kw.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/lrg/9781/9122/9781912208883.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="250" src="https://d1w7fb2mkkr3kw.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/lrg/9781/9122/9781912208883.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p>______________________________</p><p>Incarceration in a purpose-built dungeon in Morocco has produced a memoir that is a tribute to human fortitude and imagination </p><p class="byline" data-component="meta-byline" data-link-name="byline"><span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Toby Lichtig</span></span><time class="content__dateline-wpd js-wpd" data-timestamp="1589524231000" datetime="2020-05-15T02:30:31-0400" itemprop="datePublished"><br />Fri 15 May 2020 <span class="content__dateline-time">02.30 EDT</span>
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</p><p>...Tazmamart was a purpose-built dungeon situated in the Atlas mountains,
searing in the summer, freezing in the winter, cramped and hellish all
year round. The rations were meagre, the clothes spartan, the sewers
open. Exercise consisted of “the diagonal of life” – “four steps one way
and four the other, a half-turn to the left and right alternately, so
as not to get dizzy”. The prisoners were repeatedly reminded that their
sole exit was death. Only following international pressure did Morocco
admit to the prison’s existence and close it down. Of the 58 men sent
there after the coup attempts, more than half had died.</p><p>Tazmamart was a pit of despair – but also a well of stories. Several
memoirs and documentaries have emanated from its horrors, along with a
novel, <em><a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/jul/24/featuresreviews.guardianreview14">This Blinding Absence</a></em><a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/jul/24/featuresreviews.guardianreview14"> </a><em><a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/jul/24/featuresreviews.guardianreview14">of Light</a></em><a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/jul/24/featuresreviews.guardianreview14"> (</a>2001)
by Tahar Ben Jelloun, probably Morocco’s most famous living author. He
had based it on a three-hour interview with BineBine, whom he renamed
Salim...</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/15/tazmamart-by-aziz-binebine-review-life-in-a-secret-prison" target="_blank">FULL ARTICLE</a> <br /></p>sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-84655873849903564002019-11-04T15:39:00.000-06:002019-11-04T15:39:06.502-06:00Face-books: Publishing via Social Media in Morocco <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://en.qantara.de/content/social-media-fosters-creative-writing-in-the-maghreb-published-by-facebook" target="_blank">Here is an article</a> from Qantara which was originally written in Arabic on the use of social media platforms by Moroccans to self-publish novels and to share information about reading.<br />
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Social media has democratised literary publishing, paving the way for young Moroccan writers to publish works which previously would not have enjoyed publication through traditional outlets.<br /> <br /> By Ismail Azzam <br />(translated by Chris Somes-Charlton)<br /> <br /> As the trend in social media took off, there was a fear that it would drive young Moroccans further away from writing, against a background of dismal statistics showing that most people in North Africa and the Middle East read only a few pages a year. This fear found its echo in the invasion of smartphones into everyday life, in such a manner that left books as no more than decoration in the front rooms of many households. <br /><br />Despite this gloomy outlook, many Moroccans actually use social media to find out about books. Visit social media sites and you will see Facebook groups such as "Publications Iʹve read", "Ktoubna" and "Book share". These groups attract tens of thousands of eager readers. Moreover, Moroccan readers get involved in the group discussions on individual books via the Goodreads platform to review the writings. <br /><br />This interest does not stop at reading books; it extends to writing them as well. These days it is apparent that many young Moroccan writers set out to write novels early in their lives, even though some of them are only known for their literary aptitude through Facebook. <br /><br />Amongst those writers with whom Moroccan readers have become acquainted via social media is Abdul Aziz al-ʹAbdi who recently published "The book of faces" (a literal translation of Facebook). There is also Abdul-Samiʹ Bensaber, who recently published the novel "A Serpentʹs tail", as well as Mohammed Benmiloud who wrote "The Dangerous Neighbourhood", as well as many others who have either just begun or recently circulated their literary works on social media. <br /><br />In this article, we will look at some of these writers, although the choice of the names below is not a reflection of their literary merit or lack of it. Rather, they are examples which shed light on the phenomenon of writing amongst young Moroccans.<br /><br /><a href="https://en.qantara.de/content/social-media-fosters-creative-writing-in-the-maghreb-published-by-facebook" target="_blank"><br /></a>
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sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-67433584535466137332019-02-21T05:56:00.002-06:002019-02-21T05:56:35.794-06:00The man who wrote Morocco’s first post-colonial Arabic-language textbooks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://en.yabiladi.com/articles/details/68706/ahmed-boukmakh-teacher-behind-morocco-s.html" target="_blank">Here is a piece</a> that appeared on the Yabiladi website on Ahmed Boumakh, the man who wrote Morocco's first Arabic textbooks after colonialism.<br />
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nowadays. He is Ahmed Boukmakh, a Tangier-native who dedicated his professional
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Born in the 20s, amid the Rif war, Boukmakh was known in
Morocco for creating a series he entitled «Iqrae» (read) to revive the Arabic
language after the country broke free from the French. But before having the
idea of contributing to the educational sector in the Kingdom, Ahmed Boukmakh
was an ordinary kid, who left home to stay at his father’s shop in the city.</div>
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For Moroccans who
attended public school, he was the man behind their colorful textbooks, a
teacher that they nostalgically mention nowadays. He is Ahmed Boukmakh,
a Tangier-native who dedicated his professional career to his students.<br />
His name has been associated with the recent the decision taken by the Ministry of Education, amending textbooks in the Kingdom.<br />
Born in the 20s, amid the Rif war, Boukmakh was known in Morocco for
creating a series he entitled «Iqrae» (read) to revive the Arabic
language after the country broke free from the French. But before having
the idea of contributing to the educational sector in the Kingdom,
Ahmed Boukmakh was an ordinary kid, who left home to stay at his
father’s shop in the city.<br />
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For Moroccans who
attended public school, he was the man behind their colorful textbooks, a
teacher that they nostalgically mention nowadays. He is Ahmed Boukmakh,
a Tangier-native who dedicated his professional career to his students.<br />
His name has been associated with the recent the decision taken by the Ministry of Education, amending textbooks in the Kingdom.<br />
Born in the 20s, amid the Rif war, Boukmakh was known in Morocco for
creating a series he entitled «Iqrae» (read) to revive the Arabic
language after the country broke free from the French. But before having
the idea of contributing to the educational sector in the Kingdom,
Ahmed Boukmakh was an ordinary kid, who left home to stay at his
father’s shop in the city.<br />
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For Moroccans who
attended public school, he was the man behind their colorful textbooks, a
teacher that they nostalgically mention nowadays. He is Ahmed Boukmakh,
a Tangier-native who dedicated his professional career to his students.<br />
His name has been associated with the recent the decision taken by the Ministry of Education, amending textbooks in the Kingdom.<br />
Born in the 20s, amid the Rif war, Boukmakh was known in Morocco for
creating a series he entitled «Iqrae» (read) to revive the Arabic
language after the country broke free from the French. But before having
the idea of contributing to the educational sector in the Kingdom,
Ahmed Boukmakh was an ordinary kid, who left home to stay at his
father’s shop in the city.<br />
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After Morocco broke free from the French, Ahmed Boukmakh created a
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Arabic language in the kingdom after independence.</div>
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Arabic language in the kingdom after independence.</div>
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After Morocco broke free from the French, Ahmed Boukmakh created a
textbook series he dubbed «Iqrae». The latter was meant to revive the
Arabic language in the kingdom after independence.</div>
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After Morocco broke free from the French, Ahmed Boukmakh created a
textbook series he dubbed «Iqrae». The latter was meant to revive the
Arabic language in the kingdom after independence.</div>
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After Morocco broke free from the French, Ahmed Boukmakh created a
textbook series he dubbed «Iqrae». The latter was meant to revive the
Arabic language in the kingdom after independence.</div>
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sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-68062424320104201012019-02-21T05:47:00.000-06:002019-02-21T05:47:15.140-06:00Which Language to Read (in) Morocco ? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-morocco-education/morocco-looks-to-french-as-language-of-economic-success-idUSKCN1Q70YF" target="_blank">Here is an article</a> from Reuters on the controversial decision to teach subjects in French in public primary and high schools. Somehow other countries can teach and learn in Arabic, or atleast produce truly bilingual people, but this seems challenging in Morocco. The article leaves out the simulateous efforts to introduce Arabic dialect (as opposed to standard Fusha) into children's text books. <br />
Perhaps there are political and not just economic reasons to want to distance youth from <br />
Arabic?<br />
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Morocco looks to French as language of economic success<br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Ahmed Eljechtimi</span></span></h3>
<br />With so many students dropping out of university because they don’t speak French, the government has proposed reintroducing it as the language for teaching science, maths and technical subjects such as computer science in high schools. <br /><br />It also wants children to start learning French when they start school. <br /><br />The country’s official languages are Arabic and Amazigh, or Berber. Most people speak Moroccan Arabic – a mixture of Arabic and Amazigh infused with French and Spanish influences. <br /><br />In school, children are taught through Arabic although they don’t use it outside the classroom. When they get to university, lessons switch to French, the language of the urban elite and the country’s former colonial masters. Confused? Many are. <br /><br />Two out of three people fail to complete their studies at public universities in Morocco, mainly because they don’t speak French. <span><br /></span><div class="BylineBar_byline">
<span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-morocco-education/morocco-looks-to-french-as-language-of-economic-success-idUSKCN1Q70YF" target="_blank">FULL ARTICLE </a></span></div>
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sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-87677161267552496132018-08-02T14:46:00.000-05:002018-08-02T14:46:29.563-05:00A Morocco Anthology - Book Review of a Volume of Moroccan Travel Writing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here is a <a href="https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/book-review-a-morocco-anthology-travel-writing-through-the-centuries-1.754819">piece</a> from the National that reviews a recent publication on travel writing about Morocco, <i>A Morocco Anthology</i>, which is edited by Martin Rose .<br />
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by <span> </span><span>Lucy Scholes</span><br /><br />Ali Bey el Abbassi was a Spaniard from Barcelona, born in 1767, who claimed he was a descendant of the Abbasid caliphs. He made his name as an explorer and spy in the Islamic world, travelling and behaving in every way as a Muslim, who visited Morocco between 1803 and 1805. Although he was apparently ultimately denied Muslim burial when he passed away in Damascus in 1818 because a cross was found on his person.<br /><br /> On 23rd June, 1803, he crossed the Strait of Gibraltar – a mere fourteen miles, Martin Rose, A Morocco Anthology’s editor, points out, but in every other way a gulf between two completely different worlds.<br /> <br />
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El Abbassi sailed into Tangier, “the gateway” of Morocco for Europeans in the era before air travel. Rose describes it as a “strange and perhaps unique place,” one that for 23 years in the late seventeenth century was actually in the possession of the English crown, having been part of Catherine of Braganza’s dowry when she married the English monarch Charles II in 1661.<br />
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sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-35064579282646815612018-04-16T13:49:00.001-05:002018-04-16T13:49:36.990-05:0010 books based in Tangier <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2018/mar/28/top-10-books-based-in-tangier" target="_blank">Here is a piece</a> from the Guardian on 10 books based in Tangier, Morocco. Of course no list is definitive, and when you're looking at English langauge literature on the city you're going to have an over representation of Paul Bowles, but its nice to have suggestions. Also, what about <i>The Alchemist?<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Twain. Edith Wharton. Patricia Highsmith. The Beats. At one time or
another, these literary figures passed through Tangier, and were
inspired by the places they saw and people they met. Then there is the
wealth of great writers born there: <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" draggable="true" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/dec/21/featuresreviews.guardianreview2">traveller Ibn Battutah</a>, storyteller Driss ben Hamed Charhadi, writer Mohamed Choukri.<br /><br />
Despite this literary link, finding stories set in Tangier is a
difficult feat, particularly ones by Arabic writers. The problem lies in
language; in Morocco, which language you decide to write in – Arabic or
French – is crucial, and while some work will eventually be translated
into English, this is not always the case. There also appears to be
fewer women writing about Tangier – my list features an almost
exclusively male perspective of the city. There are, in fact, female
Moroccan writers: <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" draggable="true" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/18/fatima-mernissi-obituary">Fatema Mernissi</a>,
an Arab Islamic feminist whose most well-known work was Beyond the
Veil; Leila Abouzeid, whose novella Year of the Elephant was the first
work by a Moroccan woman to be translated from Arabic to English; and
Leïla Slimani, a Franco-Moroccan writer who won the Prix Goncourt for <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" draggable="true" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/10/lullaby-leila-slimani-review">her novel Lullaby</a>.<br />
Here is my selection of books by authors from Tangier, who passed through, or who even adopted the city as their home. <br />
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2018/mar/28/top-10-books-based-in-tangier" target="_blank">FULL ARTICLE</a><br />
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sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-6706746722178812852017-05-30T09:26:00.002-05:002017-05-30T09:26:45.743-05:00Ketabook: Selling You on Books Published in Morocco <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here is an<a href="http://www.al-fanarmedia.org/2017/04/moroccan-historian-turned-book-hunter/" target="_blank"> article</a> from al-Fanar Media on Ketabook, an online Maghreb-centered bookstore, a real treasure.<br />
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</span>Mohamed El Mansour has retired from teaching history at Mohamed V University in Rabat, but he keeps himself busy. He writes books and articles on historical subjects, and he runs a unique online business, <a href="https://www.ketabook.com/">Ketabook</a>, which assists foreign libraries and scholars in finding books from the Maghreb. <br /><br />The first challenge is simply to be aware of what is being published in Morocco and neighboring countries—no simple task. <span class="reviewBody" itemprop="reviewBody"></span><br />
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we met for a coffee in Rabat, and distribution is weak. Because of this,
he and his team “work on a small scale, on the basis of personal
relations. You have to go knock at the [bookstores’] door.”</span><br />
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sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-36835684183167760972017-01-06T08:18:00.000-06:002017-02-06T07:09:27.727-06:00Public Library on the Beach - A first in Morocco <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here is a photo piece on a small public lending library opened on a beach in El Jadida, Morocco.<br />
The original Arabic story from al-Youm24 can be found <a href="http://www.alyaoum24.com/657143.html" target="_blank">here</a>. <br />
<a href="https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2016/07/191985/pictures-el-jadida-inaugurates-first-moroccan-beach-library/" target="_blank">Morocco World News</a> translated the original piece, a portion of which is found below.<br />
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sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-41056412074060574662016-10-29T08:36:00.000-05:002016-10-29T08:36:19.114-05:00Archaeological Preservation in Aghmat - An important Location of Moroccan Medieval History <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here is a <a href="https://www.archaeological.org/news/currentprojects/23229" target="_blank">piece</a> from the Archaeological Institute of America on a project they are supporting to restore parts of Aghmat, an important town in Moroccan history. Another short musing about Aghmat in French from Zamane magazine can be found <a href="http://zamane.ma/fr/quest-ce-qui-a-tue-aghmat-2/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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The Medieval site of Aghmat, located at the base of the High Atlas Mountains in the Ourika Valley, was the capital of the southern districts of Morocco and the center of Berber control of the region. <br /><br />The city was a key location for commercial, political, and religious exchange in the Middle Ages and despite the relocation of the capital to Marrakech in the eleventh century by the conquering Almoravids, Aghmat carried on as an important religious center and as a strategic link between the Sahara and the rest of Morocco.<br /><br /> For over ten years, Ronald Messier, Professor Emeritus at Middle Tennessee State University and Director of the Moroccan-American Project at Aghmat has been excavating four of the most important monuments in the central part of the city: the hammam (public bath), grand mosque, the adjoining ablution hall, and the royal palace. The excavations have elucidated Aghmat’s historical trajectory from independent city-state, to imperial capital, to major commercial-religious center and its significance to the history and culture of Morocco and western Islam.<br />
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sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-22329681851187393442016-04-23T20:15:00.001-05:002016-04-23T20:15:36.393-05:00The Continuing Influence of the 1960s and 70s Moroccan Cultural and Literary Magazine Souffles <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here is an article from al-Fanar on the cultural magazine Souffles and its continuing influence in artistic and academic circles. As the article states, "<span class="reviewBody" itemprop="reviewBody"> issues of the iconic magazine <a href="http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/ListeVol.aspx?IDC=3" target="_blank">in French</a> and <a href="http://bnm.bnrm.ma:86/ListeVol.aspx?IDC=4" target="_blank">in Arabic</a> are available online through the web site of Morocco’s national
library." Stanford University Press published an English-language anthology of the magazine, </span><i>Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics </i>that can be found <a href="http://www.sup.org/books/title/?isbn=9780804796231" target="_blank">here</a>. <i></i><br />
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Scholars from around the world gathered at Morocco’s national
library in Rabat earlier this month to discuss the impact of a historic
cultural magazine. Considered so subversive in its time that its
founders were imprisoned for conspiring to overthrow the state, the
iconic magazine <em>Souffles </em>(”Breathes”) continues to fascinate Moroccan intellectuals and artists and is increasingly the focus of international research.</div>
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The avant-garde magazine, published in French and Arabic, was founded
by a group of young friends who were also some of the country’s most
talented poets, writers and visual artists. They included the poets
Abdellatif Laabi and Moustapha Nissabouri, the writers Driss Chraibi and
Taher Ben Jalloun, the painters Mohamed Melehi and Farid Belkahia, and
many more. The magazine also developed contacts and contributors
elsewhere in the region, such as the Syrian poet Adonis.<br />
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The magazine was published from 1966 to 1971, a very turbulent time
in Morocco’s<br />
modern history, when King Hassan II faced public protests,
leftist opposition and coup attempts, and reacted by unleashing a fierce
repression—including arrests, assassinations and torture—that came to
be known as “the years of lead.”<br />
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sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-88496802404511300532016-02-25T12:46:00.001-06:002016-02-25T12:46:44.615-06:00Moroccan Cultural Center to Open in Paris 2018 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/france-to-get-its-first-moroccan-cultural-centre-in-2018/" target="_blank">Here is an article</a> from the Art Newspaper on the planned Moroccan Cultural Center that will open in Paris in 2018. Completely funded by the Moroccan government and unfortunately, to be built on land where there currently stands the historically important home of the anti-colonial Association des Etudiants Musulmans Nord-Africains (Association of Muslim North African Students) until the 1980s.<br />
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The Royal government of Morocco will fund a €6.7m Moroccan Cultural Centre, due to open in Paris in late 2018, <a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/architecture/article/2016/02/19/paris-accueillera-le-premier-centre-culturel-marocain-en-2018_4868698_1809550.html" target="_blank">Le Monde reports</a>.
The plan was announced on Wednesday, 17 February at the Institut du
Monde Arabe in Paris, in the presence of the King of Morocco Mohammed VI
and the French president François Hollande.<br /><br />
The architect, Tarik Oualalou, has been working with the Paris mayor’s
office and other government bureaus for two years on the project. <br />
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sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-67249937547585024962016-01-22T22:42:00.000-06:002016-01-22T22:42:27.679-06:00The Happy Marriage - a novel by Tahar Ben Jelloun <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here is<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-happy-marriage-by-tahar-ben-jelloun-trans-andr-naffis-sahely-book-review-a6825201.html" target="_blank"> a piece</a> from the Independent on a new novel by Tahar Ben Jelloun that has been translated into English. Its about a not so happy marriage between a Fessi man <br />
and an Amazigh (Berber) woman from Southern Morocco. His novels always seem to catch your attention, but we sometimes wonder who is Ben Jelloun's intended audience.<br />
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<br />Tolstoy begins Anna Karenina with the questionable claim: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." <br /><br />If what applies to families also goes for the marriages that make or break them, readers of fiction may beg to differ. At least since the age of Tolstoy, Flaubert and Henry James, suffering couples in the novel tend to run to type. <br /><br />Tahar ben Jelloun, the powerful and prolific Moroccan-born novelist who migrated to France in 1971, knows all the pitfalls of his chosen genre. His thumpingly ironic title fronts the tale of a long, fractious and toxic partnership, a "living hell" for both husband and wife. The latter acknowledges: "We were not made to be together". So how does Ben Jelloun, always a resourceful and versatile storyteller, renovate this shop-worn material? Be patient, wait and see. <br /><br />In 2000, a distinguished Moroccan painter has a serious stroke in Casablanca. Stricken by the immobility that diminishes him from a "brilliant, elegant and celebrated" artist to a helpless invalid who sees "a Francis Bacon painting" in the mirror, he has all the time in the world to reflect on his creative and emotional life. <br /><br />His recovery inches forward at a glacial pace. Enlisting a friend as his amanuensis, he uses this enforced hiatus to compose a memoir. It swiftly descends into an embittered indictment of his wife, their relationship, marriage itself.<br />
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sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-70622046164967114562015-12-18T18:56:00.000-06:002015-12-18T18:56:20.189-06:00"Gradual Kingdom:" NYC Art Exhibit by Meriem Bennani <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/arts/design/meriem-bennanis-gradual-kingdom-focuses-on-morocco.html?_r=0" target="_blank">a piece </a>from the New York Times about an exhibition by Moroccan artist, Meriem Bennani at <a href="http://ssiiggnnaall.com/" target="_blank">Signal gallery</a> entitled Gradual Kingdom.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">By MARTHA SCHWENDENER</span><br /> <span style="font-size: x-small;">DEC. 3, 2015 </span><br /><br /> Meriem Bennani’s first show at Signal, “Gradual Kingdom,” might not be as funny as her <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/28/t-magazine/art-meriem-bennani-hijab-video.html">other projects</a>, which have appeared on sites like Instagram and included a reality show parody (now under actual development) about a hijab designer whose zany head scarves function as purses or Carmen Miranda-like apparatuses. Instead, this exhibition focuses on her hometown, Rabat, Morocco, and how it fits, sometimes depressingly, into global networks of commerce and real estate.<br /><br />Near the gallery’s entrance are three rudimentary hologram machines — made out of televisions, glass panels and LEDs — displaying images of filtering sand, drifting rose petals and shattering glass. A narrow, floating staircase attached to one wall is coated with sand and leads nowhere. More sand is in the rear of the gallery, this time a pile with an elongated iPhone sculpture lying on it. Ms. Bennani’s home region has nearly been depleted of sand, which has been exported to build artificial islands in the Middle East and offset erosion at luxury beaches around the world. (The sand here comes from an industrial supplier across the street from the gallery.)<br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/arts/design/meriem-bennanis-gradual-kingdom-focuses-on-morocco.html?_r=0" target="_blank">FULL ARTICLE</a><br />
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sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-78791377775254635512015-11-30T11:35:00.001-06:002015-11-30T22:31:05.022-06:00Moroccan cab driver shot in Pittsburgh in Anti-Muslim Hate Crime <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Unfortunately, these events are becoming more common. Here is a Washington Post<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/11/30/pa-passenger-rants-about-isis-before-shooting-muslim-taxi-driver-in-back/" target="_blank"> article</a> on the shooting of a Moroccan cab driver in Pittsburgh on Thanksgiving day by a man who asked him a lot of questions about his background and disparaged the Prophet Muhammad before shooting the cab driver in the back.<br />
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<span class="pb-byline" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">By <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/people/peter-holley"><span itemprop="name">Peter Holley</span></a></span> <span class="pb-timestamp" content="2015-11-30T10:26-500" itemprop="datePublished">November 30 </span><br />
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<span class="pb-timestamp" content="2015-11-30T10:26-500" itemprop="datePublished"></span>It began as an ordinary cab ride. <br />
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But by the time it was over, the Pittsburgh taxi driver — a 38-year-old Muslim man from Morocco — had a bullet wound in his upper back and was lucky to be alive, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. <br />
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Pittsburgh police are investigating the Thanksgiving Day shooting, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is asking for more help: CAIR, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153376240312695">has called on the Justice Department</a> to investigate the incident as a hate crime — which, it said, was “similar to a growing number of attacks targeting the nation’s Muslim community following the recent terror attacks in Paris.” <br />
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The passenger, according to CAIR, “reportedly began asking the driver about his background, including asking whether he was a ‘Pakistani guy.'” CAIR says the passenger also asked the driver “about the terror group ISIS” and mocked the prophet Muhammad. <br />
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The driver, who moved to Pittsburgh from Morocco five years ago, told the Post-Gazette that he is three months away from becoming a U.S. citizen. His plan is to bring his wife to the United States and start a family in the country he considers home.<br />
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<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/11/30/pa-passenger-rants-about-isis-before-shooting-muslim-taxi-driver-in-back/" target="_blank">FULL ARTICLE</a></div>
sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-41268864343883514762015-10-29T22:06:00.000-05:002015-11-07T14:03:06.577-06:00Hikayat Morocco - The Craft of Moroccan Storytelling <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here is an <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/world/africa/2015/09/meet-master-storyteller-keeping-moroccos-oral-tradition-alive-internet-age" target="_blank">interesting piece</a> from the New Statesman on a master Moroccan storyteller, Ahmed Ezzarghani and the group of young Moroccans he trains to keep the tradition going. They are called Hikayat Morocco and their site is <a href="http://hikayatmorocco.weebly.com/about-hikayat.html" target="_blank">here</a>. <br />
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<b>Meet the master storyteller keeping Morocco's<br /> oral tradition alive in the internet age</b><br />
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The art of storytelling has been an integral part of Marrakech’s culture for generations. One of the most recognisable symbols of Djemaa el-Fnaa Square, the city’s main thoroughfare, is of animated men performing folk tales; stories about kings, families, lovers and beasts, each one meticulously crafted to educate, entertain and inspire. <br />
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But over the past decade, the number of storytellers present in the city has declined significantly. With the advent of new technologies and more lucrative revenue streams, many storytellers have retired from their profession or moved onto something new. For a while, it has seemed as if Moroccan storytelling may be lost completely. One man, however, has been fighting to keep this distinctive tradition alive in the modern world. Hajj Ahmed Ezzarghani is a master storyteller who has spent more than 60 years sharing folk tales as his profession. Now in his seventies, he’s training a new generation – a mix of university students and young professionals – in the skills of the ancient art form.<br />
<a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/world/africa/2015/09/meet-master-storyteller-keeping-moroccos-oral-tradition-alive-internet-age" target="_blank">FULL ARTICLE </a><br />
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sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-48850801982793296222015-09-19T10:58:00.001-05:002015-09-19T20:09:33.979-05:00Letting North Africa be African <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and sometimes Mauritania and Libya) doesn't seem to belong anywhere. Instead of celebrating its invigorating mix of peoples and languages, and the heterogeneity of its cultures, it gets penalized for not being Arab enough, or Middle Eastern enough or in the case of the situation discussed in the article we excerpt below, it's not African enough, an accusation tinged with racial and religious biases. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/09/north-africa-algeria-black-africa-shared-history">Here is a piece</a> from the Guardian by Iman Amrani on the topic. Enjoy!<br />
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<b><br />Why don’t we think of north Africa as part of Africa? </b><br />
by Iman Amrani<br />
September 9, 2015<br />
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When a Guardian article stated that Chigozie Obioma was the “sole African writer” to be longlisted for the 2015 Booker prize, the journalist in question had clearly forgotten there was life north of the Sahara. Thankfully, the Moroccan-born writer Laila Lalami, who was also longlisted, was quick to remind him, tweeting: “I am African. It’s an identity I’m often denied but that I will always insist upon”. <br />
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I know Lalami’s frustration well. Every time I have to declare my ethnicity I am reminded that “black African” is seemingly the only category that exists. Being both Algerian and British, I am constantly explaining why I identify as European and African – as though I’m “choosing” to be African, rather than it simply being a fact.<br />
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In politics and academia, north African countries are commonly grouped with the Middle East under the umbrella of MENA. In conferences I have been to on “African” issues, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt have often had tokenistic representation, if any at all. <br />
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But the identity equation isn’t as simple as Arabic speakers equal Arab people. There are still communities across the Maghreb that speak Berber or Amazigh and a dialect called darija that heavily features French and Spanish phrases. Besides, being Arab isn’t an alternative to being African, or even black. Mauritanians and Sudanese can identify as all three at once.<br />
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/09/north-africa-algeria-black-africa-shared-history" target="_blank">FULL ARTICLE</a></div>
sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-85101227595637156732015-07-22T23:17:00.000-05:002015-07-22T23:17:28.840-05:00The Nuances of Women and Religion in Morocco<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here is an<a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/openglobalrights/meriem-el-haitami-shannon-golden-james-ron/partners-in-prayer-women%27s-rights-and-re" target="_blank"> interesting article</a> on women and religion ( i.e. Islam) in Morocco from Open Democracy.<br />
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<a href="http://www.lazyhiker.com/photos/2010_moor/highlights/religions/20101011180858_view--koutoubia_mosque_inside.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.lazyhiker.com/photos/2010_moor/highlights/religions/20101011180858_view--koutoubia_mosque_inside.jpg" height="200" width="150" /></a>Meriem El Haitami, Shannon Golden, and James Ron<br /> 7 July 2015<br /> <br />Human rights ideas are often seen as highly secularized. For many, they are in direct conflict with religion, while for others they are, at best, “awkward bedfellows”. Over the past year, openGlobalRights has run a series of articles on religion and human rights, highlighting these points of convergence and divergence. <br /><br />Some critics point to alleged Islamic positions on women as particularly problematic, and they portray women as victims of oppressive religious structures or as indoctrinated political subjects. Others point to Islam’s grounding in sacred texts, rather than universal secular humanism, as the problem.<br /><br />At first glance, the women’s rights movement in Morocco, a highly devout and observant country, seems to highlight this tension. Both Moroccan women’s rights activists and their opponents have framed their debate in “secular versus religious” terms, and both have successfully mobilized widespread public action.<br /><br />However, our Moroccan Human Rights Perception Polls, based on a 2012 survey of 1,100 adults residing in Rabat, Casablanca and their rural surroundings, suggest that this secular-religious polarization may be an elite-level artifact. Among ordinary people, the issue is more nuanced.<br />
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<a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/openglobalrights/meriem-el-haitami-shannon-golden-james-ron/partners-in-prayer-women%27s-rights-and-re" target="_blank">FULL ARTICLE</a> </div>
sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-2902135651857744102015-04-25T22:35:00.001-05:002015-04-25T22:35:26.735-05:00Morocco Says Goodbye to Author and Historian Abdelhadi Tazi 1921-2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>Inna lilahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un</i>.<br /> On April 2nd, Si Abdelhadi Tazi (<i>almarhum)</i> returned to his Lord.<br />
He was a prolific Moroccan author and historian. There are few articles about him in English, but here is a link to his English language <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdelhadi_Tazi" target="_blank">wiki</a>. We still hope to get a copy of his three volume set on the history of the Qarawiyyin mosque-university one day. <br />
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The <a href="http://www.isesco.org.ma/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=11919:isesco-director-general-mourns-death-of-dr-abdelhadi-tazi&Itemid=29&lang=en" target="_blank">ISESCO website</a> writes:<br />
Dr Abdelhadi Tazi was described was one of the Muslim world’s
eminent historians and academics who maintained a close interest in
Morocco’s diplomatic history, publishing a master reference book on this
matter. He was also particularly interested in Ibn Battuta’s journey
and produced a critical edition offering new and corrected readings in
this explorer’s extensive travels. “With the death of Dr Abdelhadi Tazi,
the academic community lost one of its prominent figures and a
historian who greatly contributed through his scholarly works to the
sphere of knowledge,” added Dr Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri, the Director General of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO).<br />
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sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-60555573645265901332015-04-19T00:44:00.000-05:002015-04-19T00:44:22.271-05:00The Reconquest of the Mosque of Cordoba - a part of Moroccan Cultural History <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here is a <a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/04/10/the-reconquista-of-the-mosque-of-cordoba-spain-catholic-church-islam/" target="_blank">well written piece</a> on the mosque-cathedral of Cordoba and the tension around Muslims and Islamic history in Spain. We generally put the opening paragraphs of an article below, but due to the sensitivities of the parent publication, you will have to follow the links for the article. Its well worth it. <br />
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<a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/04/10/the-reconquista-of-the-mosque-of-cordoba-spain-catholic-church-islam/" target="_blank">FULL ARTICLE</a> <br />
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sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-82013557326781781152015-03-20T21:02:00.000-05:002015-03-20T21:07:07.166-05:00 WeloveBuzz - The Moroccan Verion of Buzzfeed <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here is <a href="http://www.wamda.com/2015/03/welovebuzz-moroccan-buzzfeed" target="_blank">an article</a> from Wamda, about a unique website providing content geared towards Moroccan youth called welovebuzz.<br />
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Young Arabs never cease to amaze us. After Ouedkniss in Algeria, EMC in Morocco and Saily in Lebanon, it’s now Welovebuzz, a Moroccan version of Buzzfeed created by teenagers that shows the early signs of a success story. <br />
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<a href="http://www.welovebuzz.com/">Welovebuzz</a> began in August 2010 as simple blog in which Driss Slaoui and his friends shared videos they would have otherwise posted on Facebook. Now, they have 30,000 fans on Facebook, a freshly launched <a href="http://ar.welovebuzz.com/">Arabic version</a> and a monetization strategy unique in North Africa. <br />
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We met with Welovebuzz’s two cofounders Driss Slaoui and <a href="http://www.wamda.com/2013/08/moroccan-iftars-%C3%A0-la-geek">Youcef Es-skouri</a>. <br />
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“WLB has been existing since 2010,” explains Youcef Es-skouri, “but it really started to become a well-known brand--with real potential--this year. We became the reference media for trendy and connected 18-25 years-old.” Numbers don’t lie; <a href="http://www.welovebuzz.com/les-dix-endroits-a-ne-pas-visiter-au-maroc/">Les 10 endroits à absolument visiter au Maroc</a> article (the top 10 places to visit in Morocco in English) has been shared over 40,000 times and the website gets between 30,000 and 200,000 shares every month, without doing any advertising. This success is due to four pilars, according to Slaoui and Es-skouri:<br />
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Unique positioning: “We’re the only ones who target the 18-25 year-olds, we offer content that’s different, articles that buzz, far from classical news, with a good dose of humor,” Slaoui said. <br />
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<a href="http://www.wamda.com/2015/03/welovebuzz-moroccan-buzzfeed" target="_blank">FULL ARTICLE</a> </div>
sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-45379344636756881852015-03-11T16:12:00.000-05:002015-03-11T16:12:03.480-05:00Woman's Back, Donkey's Back by Hicham Houdaifa - A Book Review from The Arabist <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
There is a lot of good content already on the Internet. Today, we want to draw your attention to a <a href="http://arabist.net/blog/2015/3/9/arabist-book-review-womens-burdens-in-morocco">Morocco-related book review</a> done by our friends at The Arabist on <i>Dos De Femmes, Dos de Mulet</i> by Hicham Houdaifa. <div>
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Also if you have a second, check out <a href="http://arabist.net/blog/2015/3/11/arabist-book-review-drawing-your-way-to-freedom">another review</a> of the graphic novel <i>Amazigh, itineraire d'hommes libres</i>, by Moroccan artist Mohamed Arejdal and Cedric Liano on the The Arabist site.</div>
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by Ursula Lindsey<br /><br /><br />“Dos De Femmes, Dos de Mulet” (“Woman's Back, Donkey’s Back”) is a proverb in the mountain villages of Morocco. The Moroccan journalist Hicham Houdaifa chose it as a title for his first book of reportage, which focuses on the most vulnerable of Moroccan women — women who are illiterate, legally non-existent (because their births were never registered), single mothers (with no rights because their marriages were never registered) or vulnerable seasonal workers. </div>
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With the help of some of Morocco’s impressive NGOs, Houdaifa criss-crossed the country last Fall interviewing underage brides; waitresses in Casablanca bars; some of the tens of thousands of women who pick the fruit that is exported to Europe (and are sexually exploited by their male superiors and the wealthy families that own farms)'; and others.</div>
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sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-65239518422986490482015-02-22T00:25:00.001-06:002015-02-22T00:25:37.838-06:00A (Syrian) Shaykh in Exile in Morocco <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://telquel.ma/2015/02/14/cheikh-en-exil_1433823" target="_blank">Here is a piece</a> that originally appeared in the French language magazine Tel Quel. A translated <a href="http://sacredknowledge.co.uk/index.php/entry/45-mohamed-al-yaqoubi%2C-shaykh-in-exile" target="_blank">English version</a> appeared on the Sacred Knowledge website. Its about Shaykh Mohamed Al-Yaqoubi a Syrian religious scholar who has sought refuge in Morocco during these tumultuous times.<br />
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Mohamed Al Yaqoubi, un cheikh en exil</h3>
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Original French article by Jules Crétois <br /><br /> Rabat has become home to a scholar from Syria who was forced to flee his country in 2011, following his opposition to the regime of Bashar al-Assad. And whilst he remains active and influential on the Syrian scene, this public personality from the Prophetic line, is a more discreet figure these days. <br /><br /> <br />As soon as the door of the small villa opened, fashioned in a classic Rabatie style, the strong fragrance of Oud could be smelt. It emanated from Shaykh Muhammad Abu’l Huda Al-Yaqoubi, a major figure in the Sunni world. A spiritual guide and jurist, he heads the Syrian Shadhili Sufi Order - an order which is one of the largest and most influential in the world, both in terms of its size and with respect to its history. The Shaykh, with his smart turban, pale complexion, red-white beard, and blue eyes, alternates between “I” and “we” with majesty. Befitting for an order tracing its lineage directly to the Prophet Muhammad [peace be upon him] through his grandson Hassan Ibn Ali. With absolutely exquisite politeness, he apologises for the thousands of religious books stacked from floor to ceiling: “I just had them delivered; I did not have time to put them in order.” <br /><br /> <br />"I feel good here" <br /> <br />"I feel very good here, the country where I have roots. I am a descendant of Moulay Idris, founder of Fez”, clarifies this scholar, now in his early fifties, whose ancestors migrated some 150 years ago from Morocco to Algeria, eventually settling in Syria. He himself was forced to make a journey in the opposite direction in 2011, escaping the regime of Bashar al-Assad. With his newfound life in Morocco, he continues to devote his energies towards the religion. When we meet he had just returned from Taounate, where he had led an evening Mawlid gathering. His eyes light up at the mention of that night. As they do when he remembers some of the meetings he had with Ahmed Toufiq, Minister of Endowments; who is himself a Sufi; Shaykh Hamza, the Spiritual Master of the Boutchichi Order; but also King Mohammed VI, to whom he addressed on one Ramadan evening in 2012, the subject of differences between fatwa [legal opinion] and qada [law].<br /> <br />
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sumayyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03436098324244454884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2109715235874013082.post-56834232298559325992015-02-10T13:10:00.002-06:002015-02-10T13:10:44.178-06:00Islamic Geometric Design Heritage - Part of the Beauty of Morocco <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br />To paraphrase Monty Python, what has Islam ever done for us? You know, apart from the algebra, the trigonometry, the optics, the astronomy and the many other scientific advances and inventions of the Islamic Golden Age. <br /><br />Well, if you like art and interiors, there’s always the stunning patterns that grace mosques, madrasas and palaces around the world. <br /><br />Islamic craftsmen and artists – who were prohibited from making representations of people in holy sites – developed an instantly recognizable aesthetic based on repeated geometrical shapes. <br /><br />The mathematical elegance of these designs is that no matter how elaborate they are, they are always based on grids constructed using only a ruler and a pair of compasses. <br /><br />Islamic design is based on Greek geometry, which teaches us that starting with very basic assumptions, we can build up a remarkable number of proofs about shapes. Islamic patterns provide a visual confirmation of the complexity that can be achieved with such simple tools.<br />
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