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July 5th, 2008

Western Sahara: A new Sahrawi satellite TV station

Yazan Badran · 20:46

lingua → ar

This will be our first attempt to cover the Sahrawi blogsphere. I, alongside Jillian York and Renata Avila will try to shed light on what the Sahrawi bloggers are saying each week, in Arabic, English and Spanish. The topic of Western Sahara is one of a very complex background, and ... 4 comments · »»

July 1st, 2008

Morocco: Catching Up With Peace Corps Bloggers

Jillian York · 17:58

lingua → bn

Morocco is host to a vibrant Peace Corps program. All over the country, American Peace Corps members volunteer their time teaching English, sustainable growth, assisting with agricultural and women's projects, and a multitude of other tasks that come along with being a young, active volunteer in Morocco. And Moroccans, ... 0 comments · »»

June 27th, 2008

Morocco: Shutting down Al Jazeera?

Jillian York · 09:51

lingua → fr · es · zht · zhs · bn

After a clash between protestors and police in Sidi Ifni lead to injuries and possible deaths, Al Jazeera issued a report at a news conference held by the Moroccan Human Rights Centre that several protestors had been killed. The Moroccan authorities, angered by the report, charged Al Jazeera's Rabat ... 12 comments · »»

June 24th, 2008

Morocco: The Fez Festival of World Sacred Music

Jillian York · 15:22

lingua → es

As the 14th annual Fez Festival of World Sacred Music comes to a close, bloggers - both Moroccan residents and travelers - share their experience with this year's festival. The View from Fez bloggers, who were fortunate enough to be in the thick of things for all of the ... 0 comments · »»

June 19th, 2008

Morocco: The Fez Festival of World Sacred Music

Jillian York · 03:17

lingua → bn

June 17th, 2008

Morocco: Websites and Newspapers

Amira Al Hussaini · 17:18

lingua → mk · pt · it · ar · bn · zht · zhs · es

With the world going digital, many newspapers are meeting the challenge by making their news pages accessible online. The Arab world is no different. Moroccan blogger M S Hjiouij [Ar] complains about the standard of a popular newspaper's website in this post. 1 comment · »»

June 11th, 2008

Morocco: Resisting Daylight Savings

Jillian York · 14:08

lingua → es · zht · zhs

The modern concept of Daylight Savings Time was conceived by William Willett in 1905 and was first initiated by Germany in 1916. Most of the world does not participate in Daylight Savings Time, and until recently, Morocco was no exception. This year, however, the Moroccan government decided to re-introduce DST. 10 comments · »»

May 18th, 2008

Blogger of the Week: Jillian York

Amira Al Hussaini · 16:42

lingua → hi · es

Today's Blogger of the Week celebrates the work of Jillian C York, our Morocco author, and a regular contributor to Voices without Votes. A freelance writer, blogger, and author of a guidebook to Morocco, Jillian currently lives in Boston, US, after spending two memorable years in Meknes, Morocco. 8 comments · »»

Links about Morocco

July 4th, 2008

Crazy Moor reports that the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) has determined that there were no death or rape cases in Sidi Ifni; television station Al Jazeera had claimed that there were, leading to controversy.

June 24th, 2008

The fourth annual Festival of Amazigh Culture will be held in Fez from 3 to 6 July, reports Moroccan blog The View from Fez.

June 13th, 2008

Lalla Mira expounds on the tedium of (some) Moroccan weddings.

Everything Morocco shares the excitement of the 14th Annual Fez Festival of World Sacred Music.

May 28th, 2008

From Saudi Arabia, Hayfa [Ar] read The Prisoner by Moroccan writer Malika Oufkir and shares her thoughts about it here.

May 27th, 2008

The Moroccan Bloggers Association has launched a campaign [Ar] draw attention to the atrocities and harsh treatment jobless Moroccan graduates with higher degrees are being subjected to when they protest for jobs.

Moroccan blogger ~~Essam~~ Aissam [Ar] writes about the educational systems and grades students get in Morocco and Egypt. He concludes that graduates from his country could fare worse than their Egyptian counterparts, who failed miserably in entry exams for jobs in a casino. Aissam blames calculators for the inability of graduates to complete simple mathematics equations.

May 15th, 2008

“This revelation should only come as a surprise to those who slept through the early days of the American invasion of Iraq: An army whistleblower has revealed that the Palestine Hotel, where journalists were stationed in the spring of April 2003, was on an Army target list,” writes Moroccan Laila Lalami.