Month: September 2011

BBC News 27 September 11 22:03 GMT Construction cranes in Gilo (January 2011) Western powers have expressed dismay at Israeli plans to build 1,100 more homes on a settlement on Jerusalem’s edge. The US Secretary of State...

In 2008, El Mokhtar Jadwane (b. 1967) saw the prophet Mohammad in a dream, which led him to leave his successful career as a singer in Morocco. Jadwane was well known in Morocco and his songs were popular at parties and weddings...

27/09 19h11- NOUAKCHOTT (AFP)Mauritanian police shot dead one man and wounded several others Tuesday while dispersing a rally against the country’s census, which critics claim discriminates against black people, a security...

7:00 pm Friday Sep 16, 2011 by James Furbush The notion of reduce, reuse, recycle has been ingrained on an entire generation of kids here in America. But, despite knowing that we all need to change our habits, waste products...

By David Morris, for the Pulitzer Center, MoroccoSimone, our Moroccan surf guide, told us to be careful and I believed whatever he said because he was a good surfer. “Here there is only one way into the water and one way...