Reading Morocco

Here is a piece from Magharebia on the new vocational baccalaureates launched in Morocco. Its too bad, information science  or library sc...

Here is a piece from the NYTimes about the latest book by Prince Moulay Hicham which gives some insight into palace politics and makes a c...

Here is an article from al-Sharq al-Awsat on the novel   A Rare Blue Bird tht Flies with Me by  Youssef Fadel that was nominated for the ...

The 20th annual Moroccan International Book Fair wraps up today in Casablanca. The fair is an important part of getting more Moroccans rea...

Here is a piece from Al-Monitor that originally appeared in Arab ic in   Al-Safir. Its an imporant  discussion of Moroccan racism ( not ju...

Here is an article from  Sharq Al-Awsat on the nominees for the Arab  Booker Prize , an international prize for Arbic fiction. Three of t...

Here are two articles on undocumented immigrants in Morocco. One about a new immigration policy to grant asylum and give legal status. The...

Here is an article from the site BrownBook on an arts collective that is doing innovative things with an abandoned slaughterhouse in a wo...

Here is interesting news from the University of Pennsylvania Libraries ( by way of  a press release). They have recently acquired an impor...