Why you should live or travel alone at least once in your life
Rabat - More human interaction! It won’t be a choice, but a necessity; you’ll have to deal with more people than usual, because you’ll be doing everything by yourself! I remember when I had to go to...
View ArticleOur responsibility towards our countries and towards the world
Rabat - Nowadays, one of the most lethal threats to any country is the loss of its political stability. Dealing with this kind of problem is not an easy task for any government. It is even harder for...
View ArticleMoroccan NGO turns foreign refugees into Kaftan-makers
Taroudant - According to BBC, Morocco is the one country in the region prepared to help refugees. A Moroccan women cooperative “la Fondation Orient-Occident” - Orient-Occident Foundation - offered...
View ArticleThe High Atlas Foundation Launches its “1 Billion Tree Campaign” throughout...
By Lamia Bazir - New York January 16, 2014 was a Big day for the High Atlas Foundation (HAF), as well as its community and school partners throughout Morocco. In the course of one day and throughout 8...
View ArticleInspiring ideas to change our lives
Smara, Morocco - When you get up in the morning, stop for a while and think about your bed as your tomb. Think about being resurrected and being given a second life. Try to start your new day as if it...
View ArticleHigh Hopes for a New Volunteer Program in Casablanca
Casablanca- Dar America, the cultural branch of the US Consulate, held a volunteer orientation on January 23, for anyone interested in helping the Casablanca community. The orientation introduced the...
View ArticleI want to be your secret lover
Ifran - Sometimes, we receive a friend request on Facebook from a person we do not know. We accept or refuse it based on the profile picture, on our relationship status, or simply on our mood. No...
View ArticleA Moroccan Moment of Meditation
By Ouafae Bennis Sale - Has no soul experienced a moment of grief, restlessness or loneliness? These are the stumbles of our everyday lives; sometimes bright, other times dark. The soul then becomes...
View ArticleFormer Moroccan International Player Receives Royal Gift, Public Outrage Mounts
Casablanca - After Raja’s unprecedented accomplishments in the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup hosted in Morocco, Salaheddine Bassir, a former member of Raja’s executive bureau and a former international...
View ArticleFight Like a Cat: “Just Meow, God Will Fight”
Smara, Morocco - We have repeatedly heard that life is a battle of being or having. It is an existential war that we can either win or lose. We are all soldiers fighting for different causes in...
View ArticleDo our National TV channels represent Moroccans?
Chefchaouen- When TV channels demolish the bridge that links our present to our past, can they be called national? When we lose sight of our tradition, will we remain Moroccans? I still remember...
View ArticleThe decline of social life in Morocco
Taroudant, Morocco - A visit to a nearby cafe equipped with Wi-Fi, which most Moroccan cafes now offer, is just enough to stop on the huge change in people's social behavior and the transfiguring of...
View ArticleAn interview with a Palestinian-Israeli citizen
Rabat - Muhammad Alem is a 19-year-old Palestinian and Israeli citizen. Morocco World News asked him a few questions in order to better understand his life as a Palestinian living in Israel. MWN:...
View ArticleMorocco: Code switching and its social functions
By Abdelatif Ait Aazzi - Casablanca Code switching is both a linguistic phenomenon and a common behavior that occurs in bilingual speech. Code switching is an everyday reality in every place where more...
View ArticleCasablanca to host MEPI Student Leaders Alumni Professional Development...
By by Abderrahim Boualy - Casablanca The U.S. Department of State will hold the MEPI Student Leaders Alumni Professional Development Conference for the alumni of the 2013 program in Morocco. The...
View ArticleUsing Popular Media to Narrate the History of Africa
Rabat - In his essay “How to Write about Africa,” Binyavanga Wainaina argues that those who write the history of Africa are seldom African. Wainaina not only satirizes the manner in which the West...
View ArticleBouzabal: A source of laughter, but an unadvised role model
Abdelatif Ait Aazzi Casablanca - Bouzabal, the Moroccan animated comic series, has, surprisingly, enjoyed incredible success in Morocco. The short episodes have succeeded in attracting millions of...
View Article2 Things That Will Keep You As a Long-Lasting Good Memory
Casablanca - Not all of us are revolutionary thinkers, political liberators, polymaths or men of letters, but there are still things that can keep us as a good, long-lasting memory in the minds and...
View ArticleMorocco’s Fatima-Zahra Mansouri: A Global World Leader
Rabat - It was not just a saying when they claimed, “March is the month of women.” Moroccan women seem to take this month seriously, making it a women’s month par excellence. A few days after honoring...
View ArticleFez embraces Music, Laughs and Charity
Fez - The Alif Riad, Batha in Fez hosted a musical concert on Saturday, co-organized by the Student Ambassadors for Peace Club and the American Language Center, where laughs and peace reigned in a...
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