On a Sunday night two weeks back, in the Rose Court Garden of the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California, 150 antsy competitors between the ages of 13 and 22 milled around eating miniature whoopie pies by the light of the Moon, sizing up their global rivals in the efficient use of Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. […]
Rabat – Although it lies on the northernmost part of Africa, Morocco is a country pulled in three cultural directions: African, European and Middle Eastern. Like many nations in this vast continent, the heritage of its colonial past persists, with French being the second-most spoken language, although Arabic-Berber is the largest ethnic group. As well […]
Drawing of tomb mosque of Prophet Muhammad in Medina, Saudi Arabia. Text in Arabic. Serves as souvenir of pilgrimage to mosque of Muhammad in Medina, includes spaces for names of witnesses attesting to completion of pilgrimage – 3-6-2011 (Hoover Institution Archives Poster Collection/Fair use. All rights reserved to the author].This series of opinion articles on […]
The 7th Digital Earth Summit 2018, DES-2018, on Digital Earth for Sustainable Development in Africa will be held in El Jadida, Morocco, at the Faculty of Science, Chouaib Douakkali University from 17-19 April 2018. This conference will be one of the major events in the international community of Earth observation and geo-spatial information science in […]
Written by Reuters, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 Morocco’s general prosecutor is to investigate the leaking of a video of a detained protest leader from the northern Rif region that sparked widespread anger and accusations he had been abused. Protest organiser Nasser Zefzafi shows his arms, legs and torso to the camera in the video, posted […]
As a child, Haim Casas would walk the streets of the Jewish Quarter in Cordoba with his grandfather, talking about the city’s past. “He planted a seed in me,” Casas told me via Skype from San Roque, a Spanish town close to Gibraltar. This June, he was ordained as a rabbi, the first Cordobese to […]
Summer continues pulling out some surprises for music lovers out there, including the return of one of post-punk’s most loveable and offbeat bands, some hard-hitting rock n’ roll at some of the unlikeliest of venues, as well as Japanese bands of all ilk hitting up the capital for some love. So brave the heat, pick […]
CLOSE Heather Preston of the Calusa Nature and Planetarium talks about the center’s new meteorite from Mars. And you can touch it, too. Video by Charles Runnells/The News-Press An illustration of the planet Mars(Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto) Tim Heitz starts thinking about his Mars rock, and his imagination fires up like he’s a kid again. Just […]
Al-Qaeda’s leader has said that a German man suspected of providing support to the 9/11 hijackers who struck the Twin Towers in New York City in 2001 has died. Ayman al-Zawahiri identified Zuhair al-Maghribi as a worker for As-Sahab, al-Qaeda’s media arm, in an August 2 audio recording, describing him as a “martyr.” “May Allah bless […]
Carlos Khalil Guzman/Unsplash Carlos Khalil Guzman has been earning plenty of frequent flier miles lately. The photographer and Brooklyn native spent the past two years traveling the country, building a photo series which he hopes can broaden people’s minds when it comes to their perception of Muslims — particularly in this political moment, when our […]