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Monday, January 31, 2011

Morocco Watches Nervously as Egypt Erupts

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Here is an article from AFP about the effects and possible effects of the Egyptian riots on Morocco. Power to the People! _________________...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

Morocco Takes Measures Against the Tunisian (and now Egpytian) Influence

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Here is an article about the reaction of Moroccan authorities to the events in Tunisia (and now Egypt) which might seem to threaten the cou...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

The Adventures of the Moroccan Berber who Explored America in the 1500s (c.e.)

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Let's take a little break from current affairs. Here is a piece that ran in Saudi Aramco World a few years ago about a Moroccan man of ...
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Tunisia Revolt: Can it happen in Morocco?

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Is Morocco next? This is the question on a lot of people's minds. Who really knows. Here is a piece by Aida Alami about the prospect o...
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Friday, January 14, 2011

Joy as Tunisian President Flees, The People of Tunisia are (Almost) Free at Last!

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It is beautiful timing that the people of Tunisia were granted the blessing of a reprieve from decades of repression the day before the Mart...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Bread, Freedom, Dignity! - The Tunisian Protests Continue

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Here is an article from the New York Times about the protests going on in Tunisia right now. There is also a great blog piece by Robert Mac...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Trouble in Tunisia - Riots and Abuse in Another Part of the Maghreb

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Morocco and Tunisia have a lot of shared history and culture. So too the culture of high unemployment and frustrated youth, and cencorship. ...
Saturday, January 8, 2011

Turkish Men Becoming "Marriage Magnets" for Moroccan Women

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Here is an article from Hurriyet , a Turkish paper about the rising number of Moroccan women marrying Turkish men, sometimes to be second w...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Morocco, The Children's Book

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Here are two short reviews, one from the Chicago Tribune and the other from the New York Times , about a book published recently about lif...
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