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Three Days of Sufi Events Near Fes
The 28th, 29th and 30th of July are the dates for the first Hamadcha Festival in Sidi Ali ben Hamdouch. The festival is being directed by Abdedrrahim AmraniAccording to the director there will also be...
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Has Morocco's VoIP Problem Ended?
... or is it just a temporary reprieve?For the last two days VoIP calls, including WhatsApp, FaceTime, Skype and Viber, have been working again in Morocco when connecting through a Wi-Fi networkSince...
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Moroccan Museums Get an Upgrade
Yesterday, Friday, July 29th, the Museum of the Kasbah in Tangier was renamed The Kasbah Museum of Mediterranean Cultures and opened its doors to the public after several months of renovation at a cost...
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Amazigh Language - a Three Step Introduction
While the parliamentary session almost coming to an end, the General Secretariat of the Government has finally released the draft law to empower the Amazigh language. The head of government and all...
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Moroccan Tourism Takes a Hit
Morocco's tourism industry is struggling. In the first five months of 2016 Morocco has welcomed just 3.48 million visitors, 1.4% less than the same period last yearAccording to the Tourism Observatory....
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Australian-Moroccan "Angel" Honoured by King Mohammed VI
Back in 2015, The View From Fez reported on the wonderful work of Melbourne based Moroccan, Fatima Baraka, who has been working to assist four year old Yahya El Jabaly who was born with a severely...
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Morocco's Heatwave Continues
According to the American Meteorological Society (AMS) "in 2015, the annual temperature in Morocco was the hottest since 1960." Yet, 2016 could reach new peak temperaturesMarrakech should reach 40...
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Moroccan Summer - Tourism, Heatwaves and Burkini Bans
As we reported recently, tourism in Morocco is having a downturn, (see story here) however the popular Minister for Tourism, Lahcen Haddad, is quick to point out that that overall progress is being...
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Kloub Nssa (Heart Of Women) - Women Sufis from Essaouira
Last year, vocalist/percussionist/composer, Paula Jeanine Bennett, from Brooklyn, New York, was in Morocco working with Jessica Stephens' Culture Vultures and presented Village Dial Waheda / A Village...
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Morocco - a Safer Destination than France
While Morocco is still suffering a slow down in tourist arrivals with only 3.48 million visitors in the first five months of 2016,spare a thought for France. While often described as "the first tourist...
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Dates Announced for 21st Chellah Jazz Festival
The Chellah Jazz Festival in Rabat is scheduled to run from the 22nd to 25th of September. There had been doubts about the festival taking place due to restoration work begun last year by the Ministry...
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Morocco's Increase in ATMs and E-Commerce
Morocco's ATM network now has 6,732 machines around the country with the installation of 203 new branches during the first half of 2016, an increase of 3.1% compared to the numbers in December...
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Morocco's New Law to Protect Domestic Workers' Rights
On July the 26th, 2016, Morocco’s new law regulating conditions for domestic workers was adopted by the House of Representatives and will go into effect one year after publication in the official...
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The 9th Women's Voice Festival in Tetouan
The 9th Women's Voice Festival (Voix de Femmes) in Tetouan, runs from the 18th to 20th of August and celebrates the Moroccan female artistic heritageThis year Women's Voice honours two icons, the...
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Morocco's Scorpion Problem
For over twenty years Morocco has been tackling the problem of scorpions in the south of the country. The recent death of a young boy from the village of Tamri, 30 kilometres from Agadir, highlights...
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Major Upgrade for the Moulay Yacoub Spa
Following agreements signed in Fez, Vichy International will provide outsourced management of the Moulay Yacoub spa from January 2018 for a period of 10 years. The investment of some 261 million...
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Fez to Bordeaux Direct Flights Announced
The airline company Air Arabia announced on Friday the launch of a new connection, Fès-Bordeaux. This long-awaited route will begin service from December 03, 2016 This is Air Arabia's fourth...
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Moroccan Tourism Update
Morocco is making a slow progress in its recovery from the tourism downturn, with some 4.2 million tourists visiting the Kingdom in the first half of 2016. This is a decrease of 2.6% compared to the...
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Fez - First Impressions
Visitors arriving for the first time in the Fez Medina have a variety of reactions from bemusement to straight out culture shock. Not only is the labyrinthine nature of the city challenging, but many...
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Backlash Against France's Burkini Ban
France is experiencing a worldwide backlash against its shameful moves to ban the burkini - the Australian designed bathing costume for Muslim womenNice, Cannes, and several other French cities have...
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