Month: December 2011

People across the Middle East region have increasingly turned to the BBC Arabic service during the ‘Arab Uprising’ with a record rise in audiences, according to independent research published today.   Overall audiences to...

Morocco has avoided the turmoil faced by its other North African neighbours, and has maintained a steady pace of growth with higher government spending. But with a new government in the saddle, there needs to be a renewed effort...

By Aidan Lewis BBC News, Ouarzazate, Morocco The potential of desert sunshine – if it can be harvested – is almost unlimited It is a beguiling idea – harvest sunshine, and a little wind, from the empty deserts...

By Naoufel Cherkaoui and Siham Ali for Magharebia in Rabat [AFP/Abdelhak Senna] Almost four thousand domestic and international observers monitored Morocco’s November 25th parliamentary contest. Despite minor...

By Ernesto Londoño, Published: November 26 CAIRO — Days after Egyptians drove their longtime president from power in February, Mohammad Tolba ordered a latte at an upscale coffeehouse and waited to see whether his scraggly beard...