C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Morocco)

By Rodger Sherman
A slow week on the blog I’m following, which is inexplicable, since Morocco doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving. Anyway, one post about the opening of a cafe, and one about a deluxe hotel experience in the city of Chefchaouen. We’re talkin the real deal here: they rented out a house in the city, about four [...]

Invites Set for Mideast Conference (Eve)

  Invitations from the United States to a Middle East conference
held in Annapolis are planning to be sent out as soon as Tuesday (the 27th of November). The purpose of the conference is to relaunch Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, but the Bush administration is inviting Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria and other “key international players.” Though President [...]

Ladies!

It’s amazing to see the different stages our world is in simulaneously. Here, if a women’s rights issue comes up in the news, it’s about getting women’s pay up to the same standards as men. In Morocco, it’s still about getting women’s pay. At all. Progress on this front has been made in Morocco, as [...]

Sebta, Ceuta, Melilla, Mellilia, Spain, Morocco.

Rodger Sherman
Eve already took a look at Spain’s touchy relationship with Morocco, but the blog I’m looking at brings a slightly different perspective.
Colonialism, with few exceptions, is dead. However, Spain takes pride in its possessions in Morocco. It sets up border fences around the two enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla – Sebta and Mellilia, to [...]

A Look at Spain-Morocco Dispute (Eve)

On Friday, Morocco announced that they would be removing the ambassador to Spain after the King and Queen of Spain announced that they would be visiting a section of North Africa. At first this might seem like it should not cause a problem, but it brought up old issues about whether or not the area [...]

Luxury in Morocco?

Rodger Sherman
The past week, the blog I’m keeping tabs on has posted about the new government’s female members, the state of the traditional Arab bathhouse, and about Morocco’s economy, but the post I found most interesting was this one, a review of a chic hotel/restaurant in Fez, Morocco.
The swanky joint has beautiful marble floors, [...]

Sarkozy seeks to mend bridges with Morocco visit (Eve)

    The French President Nicolas Sarkozy upset Morocco when he decided to visit Algeria before them, since Morocco is supposed to be France’s ally in the Arab world.  The United States and China are pushing for more business in North Africa, even though France have been working with North Africa the most in the west [...]

Morocco Chooses New All-Secular Cabinet

    After several months of negotiation, Moroccan leaders have formed its new government.  The new government includes seven women (two more than there were in the last government), though there is no one from the Islamic party, which was second in last month’s parliamentary elections.  Out of the 34 cabinet ministers, eight are from the [...]

A New Administration in Morocco

Rodger Sherman
Morocco has a new prime minister, Abbas el Fassi, from the majority Istiqlal party. This isn’t as momentous an event as it would be in Tunisia, as Morocco has a fairly systematic overturn of Prime Minsters, about once every five years.
Morocco’s system of government seems to be a fairly well working one at [...]

Item! Leo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe Moroccan in the Free World?

Rodger Sherman – http://riadzany.blogspot.com/2007/10/leonardo-dicaprio-films-in-morocco.html
I agree that the title was a bit of a stretch, but take it as a reminder that the Access Hollywood world view isn’t a very complex – or sensitive – one. It may surprise you, but not every region of the world views the actions of Western film stars as news [...]