By Omar Bihmidine Morocco World News Sidi Ifni, June 18, 2013 One of the contradictions of Morocco is that whenever our officials suggest organizing a music festival where people sing and dance, sponsors hasten to leave their personal touch, provinces fund the event and the government lends its ears to the needs of the singers and the organizers behind the music festival. However, when some Moroccan volunte ...

By Erin Geneva Morocco World News Rabat, June 17, 2013 I am a graduate student. This is a busy enough workload, but I have also worked throughout the majority of my studies as well as been involved in my community. As a result of these experiences I have learned (or more accurately been forced to learn) how to manage my time effectively.  This means that I’m used  to waking up to my Iphone’s alarm, scrollin ...

By Omar Bihmidine Morocco World News Sidi Ifni, June 17, 2013 Many Muslims in France continue to suffer from different kinds of ill-treatment, ranging from racism to suppression of religious freedom, reported Al Jazeera channel. According to French reports, a woman recently complained to the court that she was being discriminated against because she was wearing a headscarf. Other Muslim women in France admi ...

By Hassan Abou El Fadel Morocco World News Inezgane, Morocco, June 16, 2013 I happened to have witnessed a significant act of faith at JFK airport in the summer of nineteen seventy six. The date was also significant as the US then was celebrating the bicentennial of its independence and hopes for a better world were rather high. We were a number of exchange students waiting at an airport terminal to board a ...

By Saad eddine Akhajam Morocco World News Meknes, June 16, 2013 Applied Linguistics is a multidisciplinary field that encompasses many other fields such as translation, sociology, psychology, learning a language and language teaching. Applied Linguistics was created to solve problems incorporated with learning a language and teaching. Linguists and psychologists came up with various theories of learning to ...

By Youssef Sourgo Morocco World News Casablanca, June 15, 2013 After Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, founder of the association for gay Muslims of France (HM2F), once opened in Paris the first gay-friendly mosque in Europe, on September 30, 2012, an alleged group of Muslims based in London have recently shown interest in opening alternative mosques in the UK for both genders and all sexual orientations, according to ...

by Larbi Arbaoui Morocco World News Tinejdad, Morocco, June 15, 2013 Saudi Arabia calls on Muslims worldwide to postpone their plans for Hajj and Omrah this year 2013. Saudi authorities justified this decision, which seemed to be the first of its kind, by the expansion work of the mosque in Mecca, currently underway. The Grand Mufti of the Kingdom, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh, head of the Counc ...

By Erin Geneva Morocco World News Rabat, June 14, 2013 As an international volunteer, I am very grateful to be accommodated by a lovely Moroccan host family. They have been very generous and taken me a few different places. Last weekend, we visited a farm where several guests were served a fancy lunch in a big tent. Besides the entire sheep carcasses served on giant platters, and the experience of being ser ...

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 ...

By Omar Bihmidine Morocco World News Sidi Ifni, June 13, 2013 With the advent of technology, life has been made easier for many people, including teachers and students. Use of technology has become an integral part of quality-based education all over the world. Yet, this does not necessarily mean that it will serve us well all the time.  Technology, like most tools that represent societal “progress”, has bo ...

By Youssef Sourgo Morocco World News Casablanca, June 13, 2013 Human Rights Watch (HRW), the international non-governmental organization for human rights advocacy, lamented children’s working conditions in Morocco in a report it has recently issued, entitled “A solitary Servitude: Children’s domestic labor in Morocco.” The report shed light on the “lamentable” working conditions of children in the kingdom, ...

By Youssef Harrak Morocco World News Oujda, Morocco, June 13, 2013 Feminism in North Africa, as I have claimed in the title, is a sort of ideological principles. Even the epithet of feminism reflects a certain ideology; it evokes strong emotional responses which might be developed into a set of ideas or political demands. This can be noticed clearly in the current hard-talk which is launched by feminists. P ...