Here’s looking at you, Casablanca
Morocco's largest city and commercial capital is best known for sharing its name with one of Hollywood's most timeless and best-loved films. Could it ever live up to its cinematic namesake? By Craig Hawes, Features Writer, Alpha magazine Image Credit: Corbis...
Does Obama Have Baraka?
Huffington Post Dr. Charles G. Cogan Baraka is a prized quality in the leaders of the world. The late King Hassan II of Morocco seemed to possess it, having survived two assassination attempts, in the latter of which his plane was raked by 107 bullets (though not of...
Running the Sahara
Goldstream News Gazette West Shore RCMP auxiliary officer and Canadian Sports Centre Pacific employee Don Devenney runs with gear to measure the oxygen intake into his body. Devenney is running this year in the gruelling Marthaon des Sables desert ultra-marathon....
Morocco will extend easy peeler season
Fresh Plaza Morocco will extend easy peeler season The Moroccan Clementine export started this season 10 days later than the previous year. First deliveries were made by end of October in Canada then in Russia before reaching the EU market. As usual, Moroccan citrus...
Morocco’s grain insurance plan beats target 13pct
Black Sea Grain Morocco’s government-subsidised grain insurance programme exceeded the target by 13 per cent because farmers are concerned about drought damaging the 2011-12 crop, the US Department of Agriculture’s attache in Rabat said. Rainfall since Septemper 1 is...
Cinema opens up for Morocco’s blind
AFRICA Aziz Bouallouchen explains what a difference the audio description has made As Aziz Bouallouchen walks into the foyer of a plush cinema in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, he is given not a pair of 3D glasses that one can expect to find in many cinemas around...
Meet the 30ft Dinosaur-age crocodile with the ‘fish trap’ head
By Mirror.co.uk A dinosaur-age ancestor of modern crocodiles from Morocco had a huge armoured head designed as a "fish trap", scientists have revealed. The extinct creature, dubbed "Shieldcroc", lived around 95 million years ago but was unlikely to have wrestled with...
Can you give us a lift… to Morocco?
Students Ashley Graham and Michael Duckworth are hitchhiking to Morocco to raise money for Link Community Development. Picture submitted. HE has travelled to various parts of Asia but getting to Morocco will be much more tricky for one student from Warwick. Former...
Elements conspire against Mark Beaumont and his oarsome Atlantic crew
Perthshire Advertiser Tuesday ROWERS attempting to smash the world record for an Atlantic crossing had to be rescued 500 miles from Barbados after capsizing. Perthshire Adventurer Mark Beaumont was among the crew plucked to safety on Monday. The crew of five Britons...
Bulgaria Lines New Envoys to Russia, Spain, Morocco, Syria, Pakistan
Diplomacy Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikolay Mladenov heading for a cabinet sitting Wednesday. Photo by BGNES Five new ambassadors for Bulgaria's diplomatic service have been formally proposed by the Bulgarian cabinet to President Rosen Plevneliev for...