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Moroccan Student in Lebanon Chronicles Life in the Middle of Political Crisis

Manal, a female Moroccan blogger studying at the American University of Beirut, has been drawing lots of attention to her blog Carpe Diem with her on going account of the rising crisis in Lebanon. Manal fills her readers in with a mix of trepidation, ...

From LYDIA BEYOUD, Global Voices Online,  12 May 2008
Related Topics: Hassan Nasrallah,  American University,  Hezbollah,  Saad Hariri

Morocco: Rage and sadness at this weekend's Casablanca factory fires

The mattress factory blaze is the worst industrial incident in Morocco. Moroccan Interior Minister Chakib Benmoussa who visited the site, at the head of an official delegation sent by King Mohammed VI, pledged that an investigation into the cause of ...

From LYDIA BEYOUD, Global Voices Online,  1 May 2008
Related Topics: Chakib Benmoussa

Maghreb netizens respond to 8 year-old Yemeni girl's petition for divorce

Les arabes ressemblent à tous les humains ! Des pédophiles, il y en a partout dans le monde, et c’est écœurant. Ce n’est pas un problème de race mais de certains états qui ne prennent pas leur responsabilité en ne mettant pas en place des lois qui ...

From LYDIA BEYOUD, Global Voices Online,  16 Apr 2008

Morocco: Hands off my Muezzin!

Robin des Blogs received over a dozen comments on his post about a minister in the Moroccan government who has asked muezzins in mosques adjoining tourist areas not to do the call to prayer. The post's title, “Touches pas à mon muezzin” [Hands off my ...

From LYDIA BEYOUD, Global Voices Online,  15 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Brigitte Bardot (musician),  Jean Paul

Prison Break, Moroccan Style

On Tuesday morning, 9 inmates and suspected terrorists escaped from a Moroccan jail. Moroccan bloggers used every pun and reference from the American television show, Prison Break, to describe their shock and disbelief. Qu’est ce qui se passe au Maroc, ...

From LYDIA BEYOUD, Global Voices Online,  11 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Michael Scofield

Moroccans Celebrate Eid el Mawlid en-Nabaoui, the Prophet's Birthday

In honor of “Eid Al-Nabi” I spent an hour in a taxi last night trying to find a mosque open late, and even the cab-driver was astounded that we couldn’t find even a one. Since I am currently working through a complex that God is trying to keep me out ...

From LYDIA BEYOUD, Global Voices Online,  21 Mar 2008

Moroccan Blogosphere on Fouad Mourtada: Finally Free

Le jeune ingénieur aura ainsi passé 43 jours de détention. Il a été condamnation en première instance à 3 ans de prison ferme et à une amende de 10.000 dhs. Lui était reprochée l'usurpation de l'identité virtuelle du prince Moulay Rachid sur le site ...

From LYDIA BEYOUD, Global Voices Online,  21 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.

Fouad Mourtada

With some media sources describing Fouad Mourtada as “a Martyr of the Net” and others describing the case as a “mediatic lynching” pushed by “les SAR et consorts” [all those bearing the title “Son Altesse Royale” (His/Her Royal Highness) and consorts] ...

From LYDIA BEYOUD, Global Voices Online,  19 Feb 2008

Moroccan bloggers call for education reform

When the World Bank recently announced that Middle Eastern and North African nations need to improve their education systems in order to reach their development goals and be competitive in a globalized market, it sent ripples through Morocco's ...

From LYDIA BEYOUD, Global Voices Online,  10 Feb 2008
Related Topics: World Bank

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