By Rachid Khouya Morocco World News Smara, Morocco, June 20, 2013 Mohamed was a high school student. Like many other students of the village, he used to go to school only because his parents wanted him to attend school so that they could talk about him in front of the neighbors, friends, and relatives. Despite his poverty, his father wanted him to learn English after having met an American lady when he was ...

By Said Temsamani Morocco World News Washington, June 19, 2013 Every winter of each year the International Film Festival of Marrakesh is held for a stretch of four days. It is renowned for its prestige in terms of cinematographic production and is comparable to the Cannes film festival in the south of France. The Marrakech Film Festival was established in 2001 and has become Morocco’s largest annual event f ...

Hassan Abou El Fadel Morocco World News Inezgane, Morocco, June 14, 2013 Beautiful were the circumstances and the general atmosphere at New York Kennedy airport in the summer of 1976. America was then celebrating the bicentennial or two centuries of independence after the famous declaration of 1776. Equally beautiful was the interaction with people from the plane landing at JFK until you get out of the term ...

By Mustapha Ettoulay Morocco World News Ifrane, July 1, 2012 Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. In this month, Muslims all over the world fast from dawn to dusk.  During that month Muslims abstain from food, drink and sexual intercourse from sun rise to sun set. This holy month begins with the sighting of the crescent moon on the evening following the new moon. It lasts for 29 or 30 days de ...

NEW YORK- June 14, 2013 (AFP) Apple's chief dealmaker acknowledged that prices of best-selling e-books rose after the tech giant launched iPad book sales in 2010, but denied any role in a plot to fix prices. Eddy Cue, a senior vice president for many of Apple's Internet products, did admit in federal court that he had discussed a possible bid with late founder Steve Jobs to carve up the Internet books and m ...

Morocco World News Rabat, June 13, 2013 The Algerian-born Ray singer Akil, died on Thursday night in Tangier, in northern Morocco as a result of road accident. The Algerian artist was on his way back from a show he celebrated in Tangier. As soon as they heard the news, some Moroccan artists posted it a short while ago on their official pages. The sad news was also shared by the Casablanca-based Radio Aswat ...

Fez, June 13, 2013 Damascus-born Assala Nasri’s first success, Ouala Tssadak, soon made her a major singer in the Arab world. Then her song Ighdab, which she sang for the great Syrian poet, Nizar Kabani, led to her being regarded as one of the great artists to sing for this poet along with such luminaries as Abdelhalim Hafez, Nadjet Saghira, Fayza Ahmed, Majida Erroumi and Kazem Essahir. For Oum Keltoum, sh ...

By Karima Rhanem Morocco World News Rabat, June 9, 2013 Have you read black series or Agatha Christie in your teenagehood? have you watched Alfred Hitchcock or Crime Scene Investigation? do you love mystery and suspense? On June 20, you have the chance to read the long-awaited Moroccan Police Novel "Inspector Dalil in Casablanca" by Moroccan writer and journalist Soufiane Chakouche. Published by Casa Expres ...

PARIS, June 8, 2013 (AFP) Where are people most unfaithful? Who uses sex toys? On a darker level, where is child rape more prevalent? French geographers have tried to answer these questions and others in a global atlas on sexuality.From legislation and the dynamics of couples to prostitution and violence, the book maps out the evolution of sexual habits and acts around the world by collating various surveys ...

RABAT, June 08, 2013 (AFP) "Art will always triumph in the end," says acclaimed Tunisian singer Lotfi Bouchnak, who composed songs for the 2011 revolution but has since seen his profession come under threat from firebrand Islamists. "The Tunisian revolution continues," said the singer and oud player, one of the voices of the first Arab Spring revolt which inspired an album he made in March that year. "Art w ...

Fez, June 7, 2013 (MAP) Princess Lalla Salma presided, Friday night, over the opening ceremony of the 19th Fez Festival of World Sacred Music, held under the patronage of king Mohammed VI, on the theme "Fez: Reflections of Andalusia".  The princess attended the inaugural show of the festival under the theme "Love is my religion," a poetic epic of the history of Andalusia through dances, songs, poetry, music ...

Jakarta,  June 6, 2013 (AFP) Islamic hardliners vowed Thursday to stop the “immoral” Miss World beauty pageant taking place in Indonesia even after organizers agreed this year's contestants would not wear bikinis. The Hizb ut-Tahrir group slammed the show as like “selling women's bodies” and threatened to hold demonstrations against it, while a group in the province where the final is due to take place also ...