Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Jeanne-Claude, artist and wife of Bulgarian-born Christo, has died at 74, Bloomberg reports Thursday. Jeanne-Claude died Wednesday night at a New York hospital from complications of a brain aneurysm. Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon was born on June 13, 1935, in Casablanca, Morocco, to a French military family, according to a biography on the couple's Web site....
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
"Channa, 68, founder of the Association Solidarité Féminine in Casablanca, Morocco, landed a very large bird Wednesday, when she was announced as the winner of the $1 million Opus Prize, administered this year through the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul." (thanks Najlae)
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Aicha Ech Chenna, founder of an organization in Casablanca, “Solidarité féminine,” which takes care of unmarried mothers, has been announced as the winner of the $1 million 2009 Opus Prize, as reported by online Moroccan news website, Hespress [Ar].
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Rabat, Morocco - Eighty-two cases of the H1N1 influenza have been diagnosed in Morocco in a single day, press reports said Thursday. The cases were discovered in the cities of Casablanca, Fes, Meknes, Kenintra and Rabat on October 28, Health Minister...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Larbi, in Comme une bouteille jetée à la mer, reports [Fr] on a manifestation that took place on Sunday 13 September in the outskirts of Casablanca, by young Moroccans who decided to organize a picnic braving the ban on eating in public during Ramadan, only to find hundreds of policemen confronting them. “Our objective is [...]
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
American researcher Jacqueline Powers, blogging on Vie au Maroc (Life in Morocco), reflects on the day she spent in the outskirts of Casablanca, volonteering with INSAF, a shelter association for single mothers.
AgoraVox (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
Mamadou, L'Bob, Larbi, Z'roki, Sh'homat, Rasta, Drori, Selham, L'hadj, Mi Zina, Nouass, Marquize ... All these are names, or let us say nicknames of some drug dealers in the city of Casablanca, the economic capital of Morocco where a drug dealer is called BEZNAZ. this (...)
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
From the western edge of the Muslim world, the King of Morocco has dared to tackle one of the most inflammatory issues in the Middle East conflict - the Holocaust. Morocco's "First Servant," King Mohammed VI and Princess Lalla Salma at the royal theater in Marrakech. Photo: AP At a time when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's dismissal of the Holocaust has made the biggest headlines,...
IOL (Free subscription) | 07/20/2009
A light tourist aircraft has crashed near Casablanca in Morocco, killing all four people on board.
Time (Free subscription) | 07/15/2009
To combat extremism, a community project is inspiring slum kids to become role models. What can Morocco's ghettos teach the rest of the world?
Seraphic Secret (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
If I Forget Thee O' Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither. Photo by Robert J. Avrech, all rights reserved. Let's review: Barack Hussein Obama's mentor for over 20-years was the Jew-hating Jeremiah Wright. Obama was a faithful member of Wright's, so-called church, where Jew-hater Louis Farrakhan was lionized. Obama was buddy-buddy with American terrorists/trust fund babies Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn,...
Morocco Travel Information (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
By MICHAEL HINKELMAN Philadelphia Daily News hinkelm@phillynews.com 215-854-2656 When my wife, Angela, and I booked a trip to Morocco, she was excited that our itinerary included an overnight stay in a Sahara tent camp, reachable only by camel ride. I had insisted only on something more challenging than palm trees and pina coladas. When our small group of campers arrived at the end of a stony road...
ABC News (Free subscription) | 04/19/2009
In famed seaside city of Casablanca, some Moroccans strive to make slums a thing of the past
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 04/18/2009
This seaside city is known as a rich stockpile of art deco architecture, the hub of Morocco's economic growth and the setting of an all-time classic movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 04/17/2009
ZIMBABWE'S Mbonisi Ndimande and Admire Mushonga have both progressed to the quarter-finals of the boys Under-18 singles at the African Junior Championship tennis competition currently underway in Casablanca, Morocco.
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