In the 1880s, British lawyer Abdullah Quilliam sailed to Tangier for a vacation. In the city he was impressed by Islam and Muslims and decided to renounce Christianity for the religion. Back to Liverpool, the man helped build one of the first mosques in the UK.
Sent by a Saadi Sultan to establish the Anglo-Moroccan alliance, Moroccan diplomat Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud ben Mohammed Anoun is believed to have inspired the character of William Shakespeare's Moorish hero Othello.
Former Moroccan footballer Adil Glia has worked at the foundation of the English West Ham United football team for two years, after a long journey that began with the Salé Association team.
To pay tribute to Eve Branson, who passed away in January due to Covid-19 and gave so much to the Asni region, NGOs have filed a request to give the name of the British philanthropist to a road connecting the rural town to the Kasbah Tamadot hotel.
British photographer Alan Keohane has been living in Morocco since the 1990s. During the last 30 years, he worked as a mountain guide in the Atlas Mountains, published books on Moroccan people and helped promote tourism in Morocco to the English-speaking world through his photography.
The UK-Morocco association agreement and including the Sahara within the territorial scope of said deal was discussed this week at the House of Lords. The discussion was a lively debate in which several Conservative Party Lords defended Morocco’s stance.
In a new study, researchers at the University of Oxford suggest that a single dose of the AstraZeneca's vaccine would be 76% effective between three weeks and three months.