Mawazine: Blues at Bouregreg with Delgrés
Rabat – With hundreds of years of culture and tradition behind them, Delgrés brought the sound of the West Indies to Rabat on Tuesday, June 25 with their Carribean blues-inspired performance. On the...
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Focus on Music, Not Shopping at Annual Essaouira Gnaoua Festival
Rabat – Every summer thousands of visitors descend on the coastal town of Essaouira for the Gnaoua Music Festival. Unfortunately, the crowds don’t necessarily mean business for local merchants. In the...
View ArticleMawazine: Youssoupha Brings Franco-Congolese Rhythms to Rabat
Rabat – Born in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and raised, for much of his life, in France, Youssoupha has developed his own unique style of French rap during his career as a...
View ArticleMorocco’s Annual Ifrane Festival 2019 Line-up
Rabat – Ifrane is a small mountain town in the Middle Atlas mountains of Morocco, 70km south of Fez. It is known for its alpine-style architecture, ski fields and cedar forests. For the fourth year...
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Interview: Controversial Musicians Mashrou Leila Talk Gender Conformity
Rabat – What began as a one-night call to action to musicians on the campus of The American University of Beirut over a decade ago, morphed into the internationally popular quintet Mashrou Leila....
View ArticleMawazine: American Rapper Future Takes Fans Down Memory Lane
Rabat – Rabat’s Mawazine festival started off with a bang this year. When hip-hop megastars from all around the world come under one roof, you are guaranteed to see some great performances and Future,...
View ArticleCasablanca’s New Grand Theater Inauguration Postponed
Rabat – Casablanca’s new theater was due to be inaugurated in June 2019, but according to the project website, Casa Amenagement has delayed the inauguration date. The reasons for the delay are as yet...
View ArticleWinner of Miss Arab Next Top Model: ‘I’m Lucky to Be Moroccan’
Rabat – This year’s edition of Arab Next Top Model, an international competition with 53 contestants held in Beirut, saw Moroccan model Sofia Saidi take home the “Miss Arab” crown on the night of...
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Franz Ferdinand Rocks 2019 ‘Jazzablanca’ Festival
Rabat – The Scottish rock group brought the Casablanca Hippodrome to its feet on the first night of the Jazzablanca Festival, lasting from July 2 -12. The band started the set – their first on the...
View Article4th of July; the Founding Fathers and the Challenge of Islam
Rabat – Upon the declaration of the US independence on July 4, 1776 two of the first three states to acknowledge the country’s sovereignty and freedom were Muslim, zealously supporting America’s notion...
View ArticleMorocco Allocates MAD 13 million to Rehabilitate Spanish Cultural Sites in...
Rabat – The Spanish Press Agency EFE reports MAD 8 million ($836 000) will go towards the renovation of the Plaza de Toros, a bullfighting arena which currently stands empty, to turn it into a cultural...
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A Moroccan Wedding: Fairy Tales Do Come True
By Madeleine Handaji Rabat – The first wedding doesn’t really count, I was 10 and performing a play at my grandparent’s 50th wedding anniversary party. I walked up the aisle dressed in the only white...
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‘We love Morocco’: British Electro Group Metronomy Lights Up Jazzablanca
Rabat – “Do you prefer if I speak in English or bad French?” Metronomy front man Joseph Mount asked the Jazzablanca crowd on the fourth night of Jazzablanca, July 2-7. “Not French!” the assembled...
View ArticleMoroccan Government to Invest MAD 15 Million for Restoration of Lixus...
Rabat – Lixus is an ancient city on the banks of the Loukous River. First settled by the Phoenicians in the 12th century BC, it flourished under the Roman empire. The site is home to the only Roman...
View ArticleMoroccan Director Maryam Touzani Joins the Oscar’s Academy
Rabat – This year, the Oscar’s Academy, one of the oldest and most respected Hollywood institutions, appointed 842 new members to its ranks. Half of the newly appointed members are women. Among them is...
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Chef Gordon Ramsay Explores Morocco on a Culinary Journey
Rabat – World-renowned British chef and TV personality, Gordon Ramsay, looked to Morocco as the focus for an episode for his new 6-part National Geographic series, “Gordan Ramsay: Uncharted.” In the...
View ArticleFez Hosts Annual International Festival of Amazigh Culture July 12 to 14
Rabat – The International Festival of Amazigh Culture, which takes place in Fez from July 12 to 14, will celebrate the contributions of Amazigh Culture to the fabric of Moroccan society. The theme for...
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Al Araby’s Palace of Cassettes: A Love Letter to the Golden Age of Moroccan...
Rabat – A time capsule sits hidden deep in the labyrinth of Fez’s thousand-year-old medina. Inside, one won’t find a trove of sepia-toned photos or a dispatch to one’s future self, but a love letter...
View ArticleMorocco Donates Hundreds of Books to Iraq’s University of Mosul
Rabat – The Ministry of Culture and Communication has donated hundreds of books in various literary and scientific disciplines to the University of Mosul in Iraq. The donation comes as part of the...
View ArticleEgyptian Actor Farouk El-Fishawy Dies at 67
Rabat – Iconic Egyptian actor Farouk El-Fishawy died on Thursday morning, July 25, after he went into a coma due to liver failure. A man with charisma, El Fichawy died at the age of 67. In October...
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