The Aspen Institute Launches Food Security Strategy Group
On June 15-17 in Marrakech, Morocco, nearly 40 preeminent thought-leaders on hunger, global food markets, climate change, and population convened for the launch of a new Food Security Strategy Group at the Aspen Institute. This Strategy Group was launched in parallel...
Arabic Program to Relocate From Egypt to Morocco
The Arabic Overseas Flagship Program is relocating from Alexandria, Egypt to Meknes, Morocco, having determined that restrictions in place to ensure students’ safety were undermining opportunities for informal language and cultural learning. Demonstrations against...
Arab Spring impact on Brent oil
OPEC deals in BRENT ( BNO , quote ) not WTI crude and this is the benchmark to watch if you think the Egypt situation is spiraling towards a Suez Canal shutdown. Additional middle east tension, Syria, Turkey, Iran...these all play into the supply disruption trade that...
Maghreb News : 2013-07-03
Magharebia Latest News Latest Discussion Diplomacy | 2013-07-03 British diplomat begins Mauritania trip Britain's top diplomat for the Middle East began a two-day visit to Nouakchott on Tuesday (July 2nd).... Economy | 2013-07-03 French president to visit Tunisia...
A.T. Kearney’s Global Business Policy Council Holds Annual CEO Retreat in Morocco Under Patronage of King Mohammed VI
A prestigious group of nearly 60 international CEOs and thought leaders gathered under the patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI in Marrakech, Morocco for the annual CEO Retreat of A.T. Kearney's Global Business Policy Council, June 27-29. This was the first time...
Maghreb News : 2013-07-01
Arts & Entertainment | 2013-07-01 El Jem hosts music festival Tunisia's 28th International Festival of Symphonic Music opened Saturday (June 29th) in El Jem with a performance by the Rome Symphony Orchestra, TAP... Diplomacy | 2013-07-01 Arab League delegation...
3rd phase for Euromed Audiovisual Programme
The Euromed Audiovisual Programme, which has a budget of €11 million over three years (2011-2013), is in its 3rd phase. The programme currently funds six projects aimed at developing the film and audiovisual sector in ten southern Mediterranean countries: Algeria,...
The Rolling Stones of Morocco’ – Nass El Ghiwane’s music of protest
Fly into Morocco on Royal Air Maroc, and as in-flight entertainment on the overhead screens you’re treated to Charlie Chaplin shorts from the 1910s, still sharp as a tack, the little guy goosing authority, the law, the rich, the powerful. The Little Tramp must remain...
Morocco’s Cooking Gas Distributors Poised to Strike Over Margins
Moroccan cooking gas distributors may stage strikes as early as this week to pressure the Islamist-led government to increase distribution margins, two senior industry representatives said. “Our margins have not changed since 1998,” Mohamed Benjelloun, chairman of the...
Southern Morocco’s forgotten conflict
From Syria to Libya to Mali and Iran, conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa are perpetually covered in the media. Yet one conflict zone in that region—Morocco’s southern provinces, known as the Western Sahara—is hardly in the news; and when it is, the...