Rabbi Isthak Ben Walid held several positions within the Jewish community in Tetouan. For years his miracles marked the inhabitants of the city, especially those who believed in the powers of his miraculous cane.
Moroccan Washington Post reporter and writer Souad Mekhennet was awarded the International Leadership Award by the Simon Wiesenthal Center for her reporting on issues related to extremism, radicalization and terrorism, the Washington Post reported on Monday. The Moroccan-born journalist will receive the award on January 14, 2020, at the Los Angeles Tolerance Museum, MAP wrote. The journalist, who previously worked for the New York Times and the Herald Tribune, co-wrote «Eternal Nazi:
Morocco ranks 85th in Gallup’s new Law and Order index, released earlier this month. Compared to their Arab neighbors, Moroccans feel less safe in 2018.
Japan’s Sumitomo Corp., one of the largest worldwide Sogo shosha general trading companies, is planning to set up Morocco as a post-Brexit alternative manufacturing hub. According to Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei, the trading house will «broker industrial park space» for a company linked to the Moroccan government to help Japanese manufacturers export to Europe, the company said on Friday. With the help of the Tanger Med Special Agency, Sumitomo will be
Florida’s theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort has added new interactive experiences to the Morocco pavilion, wrote local newspaper Orlando Business Journal Friday. Disney has made sure to feature two of the country’s modern-day competitions to the Morocco pavilion’s Gallery of Arts and History attraction. According to the theme park giant, the Morocco section includes now a glimpse of the «Marathon des Sables» and the «Rally Aicha des Gazelles»,
According to the Global Wealth Report on household wealth, published by the Credit Suisse Research Institute, only 0.1% of adults in Morocco hold more than one million dollars in wealth. At the African scale, 88.5% of adults have less than 10,000 dollars.
Moroccan footballer Abderrazak Hamdallah, who currently plays as a striker for Al-Nassr in the Saudi Professional League, has announced his retirement from international football. Hamdallah took to Instagram to announce his decision, while in New York on vacation. His decision puts an end to a controversial episode, which had started, ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations after a fight with international footballer Fayçal Fajr. Following this fight, Hamdallah left the Atlas Lions squad,
On Sunday, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced his resignation. The latter could be a source of concern for the Polisario, which might be losing one of its important allies in Latin America.
A 15-year-old girl in Ksar El Kebir was detained for several weeks before being released by her abuser after authorities in the town launched a search operation. Speaking to Yabiladi, Monday, Mohamed Taib Bouchiba from Touche pas a Mon Enfant association said that the suspect had kidnapped and raped the girl, who is currently pregnant. He also «tattooed his name on one of her hands and forced her to take drugs». The suspect released his alleged victim after her parents filed a
British Muslims say they fear «hate crime and anti-Muslim racism will go unchallenged» after Prime Minister Boris Johnson refused to launch an Islamophobia inquiry, wrote Metro. In June, Boris Johnson promised to hold an inquiry into Islamophobia after Muslim leaders in the UK called for the opening of an independent investigation. However, last Friday, the Prime Minister declared that there would be no Islamophobia inquiry, but an investigation into «prejudices of all
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