Rabat – Fresh from receiving the esteemed French title Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in March, bestselling French-Moroccan author Leïla Slimani will host events in Rabat, Casablanca and Tangier to discuss her new book, Dans Le Jardin De L’Ogre [“In The Garden Of The Ogre”]. Slimani’s second book Chanson Douce [[“Sweet Song”]as […]
Details of more speakers will be released next month. According to curator Emeka Okafor the Africans on this list have “fresh, unique perspectives in their initiatives, pronouncements and work.” Okafor says the aim of the conference is to unite a large group with genuine interest in improving the continent. He added that he hopes the […]
Africa Science News Service Continent-wide digital skills development initiative to train half a million young Africans in one week kicks offAfrica Science News Service“However, the lack of widely available education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths (STEM) fields could undermine the continent’s ability to equip this growing workforce with the skills they need to thrive […]
With more than 80 business partnerships in Morocco, China is opening its doors to Moroccan students. To strengthen the existing relationship between China and Morocco, the Chinese Ambassador to Morocco, Sun Shuzhong recently announced a plan to encourage more Moroccan students to study at Chinese universities. At the China Higher Education Exhibition in May, the […]
Factbox: Macron’s MPs – Maths Genius, Tech Entrepreneur and Genocide SurvivorU.S. News & World ReportIn his run for parliament, Mounir Mahjoubi, the 33-year-old son of Moroccan immigrants, saw off Socialist Party chief Jean-Christophe Cambadelis, who had held Paris’ working class 19 arrondissement seat for two decades. … Poirson, who has a master’s … and more »
Rabat – Moroccan technology has once again made its mark across international platforms, scoring eight awards during the INPEX International Exhibition of Inventions, held in Pittsburgh from June 13 to 15. Morocco won four INPEX Medals of Merit, two INPEX Gold Medals and two other awards during the 32 Annual INPEX Exhibition. Despite the presence […]
OLDEST HOMO SAPIENS? It’s a little startling that so many of the media reports of the very old human fossils from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco accepted without question that these people were members of our own species, Homo sapiens. “The remains of five early Homo sapiens have been unearthed at a site in northwest Africa,” […]
OLDEST HOMO SAPIENS? It’s a little startling that so many of the media reports of the very old human fossils from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco accepted without question that these people were members of our own species, Homo sapiens. “The remains of five early Homo sapiens have been unearthed at a site in northwest Africa,” […]
People used to joke that there were more paleoanthropologists than there were fossils of our human ancestors. They also said that if you have two paleoanthropologists in the room, there will be four or five opinions. The study of extinct hominins — human species other than our on modern Homo sapiens— traditionally has been a […]
Borough Hall’s 12th annual Iftar brought the songs of children, a slate of honorees and a message underscoring the need for each person to become a crystal healer. And of course, there was the meal — starting with water, mango juice and baklava for the fast-breaking. It is traditional that the first food eaten after […]