«The Riffian Committee» is a dream that Mohamed Ben Abdelkrim El Khattabi dreamed of launching via Cairo. Through the armed rebellion he wanted to voice his opposition to the Celle-Saint-Cloud agreements.
The management of the Cairo International Book Fair has prohibited the sale and distribution of the Arabic translation of «The Political Harem - the Prophet and the Women» by Moroccan sociologist Fatema Mernissi. This decision, announced on Wednesday, drew criticism from Editions Le Fennec, the publisher of the book, who noted a similar ban in Saudi Arabia.
Morocco was one of the eight Arab countries that participated to the Yom Kippur war, fought between from the 6th to teh 25th of October 1973. King Hassan II ordered Moroccan soldiers to take part of one of the deadliest Arab-Israeli wars in the history of the Middle East. Flashback.
On Sunday, the official Algerian news agency published an article on the Sahara… located in Egypt, believing that the case was linked to Western Sahara.