Primark, an Irish clothing and accessories company headquartered in Dublin, has dropped a range of Moroccan spa products, The Sun reports today. The products include a series of face masks namely a charcoal purifying peel-off face mask, a Volvanic foaming facial scrub and a Detox Clay Mask both and an anti-cellulite soap that costs. Each of the above-mentioned products is made of natural materials such as Volvanic Ash, oatmeal and olive stones.
The 15th edition of Maroc in Mode and the 14th edition of Maroc Sourcing trade events will be held in Marrakech from the 26th to the 27th of October 2017. 175 exhibitors from Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Spain, Germany, France, Portugal and China will participate to the two shows to showcase their products, designs and abilities. According to Drapersonline, a magazine interested in fashion and retail news, the festival is going to be «divided into sectors such as fast fashion, denim,
Hana Assafiri, a Moroccan businesswoman known as the owner of the Moroccan Soup Bar in Fitzroy, Australia is recently expanding her authentic vegetarian restaurant and opening a taginerie. The businesswoman, chef and activist is notorious for the message she is trying to convey. According to The Age, a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, Hana aims to empower Muslim women by employing them and «enabling them to thrive». Created and launched in 1998, Hana has been
A study released last week by the Dutch Institute revealed a shocking truth regarding young Moroccan girls in the European country and especially in Gouda, a city in the west of the Netherlands. The investigation brought a range of unexpected results that were reported by the Dutch newspaper AD.nl. Saliha Bochhah Four years ago, the situation in the city had gotten the inhabitants of the commune, including Saliha Bochhah, worried. In an interview conducted by the same media platform
At the end of its 18th national congress in Rome, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Lavoratori, CISL) has just elected a young Italian-Moroccan member of its national council. According to the Edv, an Italian online newspaper, Hajar Dakiri was elected through the vote of the regional delegates of the second Italian trade union confederation, which has more than 4 million members. The young student is now a member of the ICFTU local branch
Meryem El Gardoum, 20, and Fatima Zahra Berrada, 38 are the first Moroccan surfers to represent the country at a surf contest abroad. Shredding the patriarchy, as reported by PRI, the two wave riders have been competing at Moroccan surf contests for years trying to change how people view this sports. Meryem, who is from a village called Tamraght near Agadir, started surfing nine years ago breaking up with the traditions and the role assigned to women by society. «People all over the
It is done, the Moroccan mountain climber, Bouchra Baibanou, has finally reached the top of the world aka Everest mountain located at the border separating China and Nepal. The 47-year-old sportswoman ascended 8,850 meters above sea level (29,035 feet) becoming thus the first Moroccan and North African woman to achieve this great challenge. C'est fait ! Bouchra Baibanou a réussi à réaliser son rêve ! pic.twitter.com/Ww3xTZ36Zf — roudhane benhamou (@roudhane)
Women’s Association for Rural Development and the American Initiative for Partnership with the Middle East (MEPI), have worked together to help 100 women entrepreneurs in rural areas acquire a set of capacities and skills through a project entitled «Empowering Women in the Atlas». The closing ceremony of the program will be organized on Saturday 13th May in Ifran, a communiqué sent to Yabiladi by the Foundation reports. «We are very proud to have successfully
The song writer and singer, Sfia Oult telouat passed away Wednesday 10th May morning in Imi Nouline in the region of Ouerzazat after being diagnosed with Tuberculosis. The 71-year old artist was sick for three months and had to stay in Ouerzazat and then move to Marrakech for treatment. Sfia Oult telouat, born Sfia Oumohamed Ouhddou, started her career as a poet and a singer with a group of Ahwach called “Assais”. She then moved to Marrakech where she met a number of distinguished
Alice Morrison was so determined to step into an ancient world that still has so much to reveal. The British journalist and adventurer went on a trip with a film crew of the BBC 2 across Morocco taking the same road that salt traders took 500 years ago. Throughout her journey Alice explored nature, the culture and had an insider look at the lost cities, mines and mountains that she transformed into a book that she called «Morocco to Timbuktu : An Arabian Adventure, The Book of the BBC2