by Rachid Khouya Morocco World News Smara, May 18, 2013 All countries of the world have the right to get rid of any individual who seem to pose a threat to their national security except Morocco. Spain and France, who are giving the world lessons in the respect of human rights, have the right to get rid of those they see as unwanted or undesired within their national borders. Of course, this is their right. ...

By Omar Bihmidine Morocco World News Sidi Ifni, may 18, 2013 Hamid Chabat's latest decision to withdraw from the Islamist-led coalition government has raised a number of questions, chief of which is: What is the real motive behind this unexpected and unprecedented move? While the majority of Moroccans have not evinced any interest in what is going on in the political sphere, Istiqlal Party and the Justice a ...

By Tansaoui Lekbir Morocco World News Ouedzem, Morocco, May 16, 2013 No one can deny that women in Morocco have gained far-reaching rights since the application of the most recent Moroccan family code, known in Morocco as the ‘Moudawana’. First, we have seen women debating on their issues on the web, TV channels, radio and the press. They are demonstrating in the street without any censorship of their freed ...

By Loubna Flah Morocco World News Casablanca, May 16, 2013 The IP (Istiqlal Party) decision to pull out from the coalition government cannot be totally comprehended without reference to the internal divisions within the party itself. It is not a secret that many IP members started to challenge the hegemony of the “AL Fassi” family over the party’s leadership. More demands were raised to break the glass ceil ...

By Rachid Khouya Morocco World News Smara, Morocco, May 14, 2013 Chabat’s withdrawal from the Benkirane government has disrupted the political scene in Morocco and opened the playing field. This demonstrates that components of the government coalition have not been in agreement since the very beginning and that the voices of opposition from these components have been heard but not taken seriously by the hea ...

By Mohamed El Mokhtar Sidi Haiba Washington, May 13, 2013 Following the recent investigative report by Max Blumenthal, a journalist affiliated with the pro-Palestinian online site Electronic Intifada, a seemingly disturbing account of a list of sponsors and sources of funding of two organizations (The American Islamic Congress and Free Arabs) came to light in rather great, and quite disturbing, detail. The ...

By Jamal Laoudi Morocco World News Washington, May 13, 2013 The United States and Morocco have historically enjoyed exemplary bilateral relations.  In 1786, the two countries signed the Moroccan–American Treaty of Friendship. This treaty, negotiated by Thomas Barclay, is considered the oldest treaty of friendship the US enjoys.  Thomas Jefferson and Quincy Adams were the signatories of the treaty on the Ame ...

By Youssef El Kaidi Morocco World News Fez, May 10, 2013 Many people in Morocco, including the Prime Minster Mr. Abdelilah Benkirane, are suspicious about the ‘Moroccan’ TV channel 2M and think that it works for foreign agendas. Many followers and commentators seem quite sure that the channel has the objective of alienating Moroccans and uprooting them from their cultural and historical backgrounds. The con ...

By Youssef Sourgo Morocco World News Casablanca, May 9, 2013 Our world is becoming increasingly dependent on means of communication and information technologies. Not so long ago, a phone’s value was its miraculous capability to connect people from all corners of the world, and a computer’s value was its ability to process information faster and more consistently than humans could. Today, those very faciliti ...

By Karima Wakrim Morocco World News Agadir, Morocco, May 9, 2013 Media has been and still is portraying women in different images, as objects which has been degenerated women’s image over time. Besides the negative presentation of women, the media is working on weakening the academic fields concerned with gender issues and woman’s identity and cultural construction by constantly projecting those images over ...

By Alison Lake Washington, May 08, 2013 Islam is to violent Islam as Christianity is to white supremacy, the Klu Klux Klan, and countless other misuses of religion for violent purposes. Penalizing or judging all Muslims for violence of self-proclaimed jihadists like the Tsarnaev brothers in Boston is like blaming all Christians for the Spanish Inquisition and for Protestant persecution of Catholics in medie ...

By Craig Considine Morocco World News Dublin, May 6, 2013 The recent development of the Moroccan government opposing the US-led initiative to extend the directive of UN peacekeepers in the Western Sahara to human rights monitoring has caused friction between Moroccans and Americans. This spat threatens to harm a relationship which has been based in mutual respect and cooperation for over 240 years. When Geo ...