Month: November 2011

Major US and international media outlets write about thousands of Moroccan pro-democracy activists who demonstrated in Casablanca calling for a boycott of parliamentary elections less than two weeks away. The demonstrations come...

By HASSAN AL-ASHRAF AL ARABIYA RABAT Moroccan youth are using social media sites like Facebook to challenge the status quo in politics and governance. (Al Arabiya) In light of the political activism that has been sweeping...

The DailyBeast.com In Newsweek Magazine Tahar Ben Jelloun on Morocco’s white city by the sea If it were a book, it would be badly written but for a few sublime pages of surrealistic poetry. It would be a manuscript that an Arab...

By Liz Sly BEIRUT — Pressure mounted on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Monday after the Jordanian king suggested he step down ahead of a crucial Arab meeting in Morocco on Wednesday aimed at exploring specific measures to...

Rebecca Bundhun The Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani is unperturbed by the turmoil in North Africa particularly Egypt. EPA Political turmoil across North Africa has not deterred Armani from plans to develop its high-end...