L’Espagne sera le pays invité d’honneur de la 25e édition du Salon international de l’édition et du livre de Casablanca (SIEL) 2019, une excellente occasion pour promouvoir la connaissance et la présence de la littérature espagnole au Maroc et renforcer les liens et le dialogue culturel entre les deux pays. Sous la devise «Le voyage des langues», le ministère espagnol de la Culture et du sport, via la direction
In Birmingham, 400 parents have signed a petition calling the Parkfield School to drop an equality classes for LGBT community from the curriculum, reports The Guardian. This project, entitled «No Outsiders in Our School», aims to educate students about the fight against homophobia in schools. Mostly Muslim, the signatories threatened to withdraw their children from this school. Andrew Moffat, assistant headteacher of the school reported that he was threatened in a flyer
After MEPs at the European Parliament voted in favor of the Association agreement concluded between Morocco and the European Union, the Polisario sent a delegation to Brussels. This week, members of «Bnat Sakia El Hamra and Oued Ed-dahab», a pro-Polisario association, held a series of meetings with MEPs in the Belgian capital. According to the Front’s news agency, these «activists» are currently visiting Brussels to «raise awareness about the consequences
State Secretary for Vocational Training, Mohamed Rherras, held talks on Thursday in Rabat with Head of Cooperation for the European Union (EU) Delegation in Morocco, Philip Mikos, on the means to step up bilateral cooperation in the area of vocational training. During this meeting, the two sides discussed the progress of the EU program aimed at supporting Morocco's reform of the vocational training system, which is currently being implemented, as well as the means to advance cooperation with
La prestigieuse maison de couture française Christian Dior va organiser, pour la première fois de son histoire, un défilé au Maroc en avril prochain. «Après s'être offert le Palais de Blenheim, en Angleterre (2016), le désert de Calabasas, en Californie (2017) et les manèges de Chantilly (2018) en France, la maison Dior a opté pour une destination plus ensoleillée pour l'organisation de son prochain défilé
American online social media service company Facebook announced on January the 31st that it took down 783 pages and accounts after they were «engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior» on the platform. In a communiqué, quoted by American financial website Business Insider, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy Nathaniel Gleicher stated that this «activity was directed from Iran (…) each localized for a specific country or region, including Afghanistan,
A Moroccan team participating to the Bocuse d’Or, a biennial world chef championship that takes place in France, won the «best poster» prize. The ranking was topped by Scandinavian countries, namely Denmark, Sweden and Norway, respectively in first, second and third places. France is seventh, ahead of Finland and Switzerland. For the record, Morocco had already participated in this prize through an invitation presented by Aissam Ait Ouakrim. The championship is named after
Five deaths from the H1N1 flu have been reported in public and private facilities, Health Minister Anas Doukkali said on Thursday, underlining that the deaths concern mainly vulnerable people. In a statement to MAP, Doukkali said that the H1N1 flu is the dominant subtype this year, like all countries in the world, reassuring that the Ministry of Health is still maintaining the epidemiological watch.
Le Conseil régional de Souss-Massa va emprunter 30 MDH auprès du Fonds d’équipement communal pour la réalisation du Technopark, un projet destiné à soutenir la dynamique entrepreneuriale et l'innovation conformément à la déclinaison du Plan d'accélération industrielle au niveau de la région. Au cours d'une session extraordinaire présidée jeudi par son président, Brahim Hafidi, en
Le musée de la migration à la commune néerlandaise de Heerlen accueille actuellement une exposition qui commémore les 50 ans d'immigration marocaine aux Pays-Bas. Les années soixante ont connu, en effet, une arrivée massive des Marocains aux Pays-Bas, venus pour la plupart de France et de Belgique pour travailler dans les mines de la province de Limbourg. Cette exposition donne ainsi à voir des photographies des travailleurs de la