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| Total Unique Visitors: 13410936 |
| Visitors Out: 2988 |
| Total Visitors Out: 63421 |
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| Photographic exhibition in Fez |
| 2010-03-04 08:11:00 |
The View from Fez team were at the opening of Fez-based photographer Gerard Chemit's new exhibition at the Galerie Kacimi in the new city.The photographs are taken from Gerard's book Transe en Danses and are the fruit of his work with the Turkish choreographer Ziya Azazi who is, in turn, inspired by Whirling Dervishes. This is, perhaps, not a particularly challenging subject for a photographer, but the results are gestural and painterly. Although the photographs are well-presented in the gallery's excellent space, the lighting was over-bright. What is disappointing is their size - how much more exciting they would be if life-size!The gallery is a beautiful space and it's a pity that it's rarely used. It can be found on Avenue Moulay Yousseff between the fountain at La Fiat and the Royal P...
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| Another Deadly Mosque Collapse in Morocco |
| 2010-03-01 06:05:00 |
Just over a week after the tragic deaths of 41 people in a mosque minaret collapse, one person was killed and three others wounded when the dome of the Al-Amal mosque in the town of Zaio in the Nador province in northeastern Morocco collapsed on Saturday during repairs. The dead man was one of the repair workers.Eight days ago, the 400-year-old minaret came down during prayers at the Bab al-Baradeen mosque (also known as the Lalla Khenata bint Bekkar Mosque) in Meknes, killing 41 worshippers and injuring over 80. king Mohammed VI ordered an urgent appraisal of all the country's old mosques after the tragedy in MeknesReports blamed heavy rains for the collapse....
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| Princess Lalla Khadija's 3rd birthday |
| 2010-02-28 18:55:00 |
On Sunday the Royal family celebrated the third birthday of princess Lalla Khadija. Lalla Khadija is the second child of the sovereign and sister of Crown prince Moulay El Hassan who was born in May 2003. According to the local media, the anniversary has been an occasion for Moroccan society to reassert its loyalty to king Mohammed VI and celebrate February 28, 2007, when Lalla Khadija was born.The View from Fez joins with the Moroccan people in wishing the princess a very happy birthday! ...
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| Learn to speak Darija in Fez |
| 2010-02-28 17:25:00 |
The new Darija conversation course with the Arabic Language Institute Fez,(ALIF). The classes are once a week in 6 week blocks and start the 2nd and 3rd of March.J'ai le plaisir de vous addresser au sujet du cours de conversation en Arabe Marocain (Darija) a l'Institut de Langue Arabe Fes (ALIF). Les cours auront lieu une fois par semaine pour six semaines, commencant le 2 et 3 marsFor more details contact: Jess Stephens - Culture Coordinator - (00 212)06 45 22 32 03...
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| The Arabian Nights come to life in Morocco |
| 2010-02-28 12:52:00 |
Leading British theatre director, Tim Supple, is in Morocco searching for local talent to star in his Arabian Nights production to open in Toronto next year.Tim (above) is well known as the creator of an Indian A Midsummer Night's Dream some four years ago. Now his project is to create a new version of The Arabian Nights. He is currently travelling through North Africa, the Middle East and to Iran, searching for just the right cast for the production. He's looking for all types of performers - actors, musicians, singers, dancers, acrobats, storytellers - to bring them all together for the production.The Arabian Nights are the 1,000-year-old folk tales told by Sheherazade which most westerners wrongly associate with characters such as Ali Baba, Sinbad and Aladdin – it is doubtful that any...
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| Fes Festival of World Sacred Music - the movie |
| 2010-02-24 07:36:00 |
For those tempted to attend the Sacred Music Festival in Fez, here's a documentary of last year's event to whet your appetite. It was made by Global Voice Productions at last year's festival, and captures the essence of world harmony through music.Festival Facts:Dates: 4-12 June 2010Website: www.fesfestival.com for the programme in French; here for the programme in EnglishTickets: from Objectif Maroc: objectif_naima@menara.maTicket Collection ServiceAccommodationThe View from Fez articles (so far) on this year's festival:- Jordi Savall- Africa DayWatch this space for more details of performing artists....
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| Moroccan Blogs: Vago speaks! |
| 2010-02-22 17:59:00 |
The View from Fez is very happy to have been judged Best Overall Moroccan Blog and Best Moroccan News Blog. We could not have done this with out our various correspondents, contributors and photographers. Especially we could not have done it without the support of our readers around the world. In the last month we recorded almost 50,000 pageviews from people speaking 66 languages . We thank you all. Our congratulations as well to all those fabulous blogs that were nominated from around Morocco. To win in such select company was a real honour! While the team at The View from Fez have been celebrating their double win in the Moroccan Blog Awards, we decided we should turn the spotlight on the man responsible for all the hard work that went into the rewards: Vago Damitio. We started off by as...
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| Mayor of Fez warns on alcohol outlets |
| 2010-02-20 10:10:00 |
M Hamid Chabat, mayor of Fez, vowed this week to clean up a number of city bars and alcohol outlets that don't meet health and safety standards.M Hamid Chabat, Mayor of FezWhile this is an admirable goal, members of the press, particularly the news blog www.Yabiladi.com, took his comments out of context and have blown the story up to read 'total alcohol ban in Fez'.The reporter at Yabiladi, Rachid Hallaouy, warned that super-chic Fez was being 'Iranised'. His story attracted a large number of comments, mostly in favour of the supposed ban. One of them even said that Fez has no need of tourism - the city existed before and will last long after the last visitor has left. Another voiced the opinion that anyone who wants to drink alcohol should leave the country. In the minority was one commen...
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| Mosque minaret collapse: death toll rises to 41 |
| 2010-02-19 18:32:00 |
A four-centuries old minaret collapsed in the Lalla Khenata mosque in the old Bab el Bardiyine neighbourhood of Meknes, killing at least 41 people and injuring 71 worshippers, hospital officials and witnesses said.Parliamentarian Dr Abdallah Bouanou confirmed the death toll. Following this painful event, HM the King decided to pay the funeral expenses. Alaoui Ismaili, a local civil defence commander, said the rescue operation was slow because of the narrow streets in the old city medina district where the collapsed mosque minaret is located."We are using only manpower, not equipment as we cannot bring heavy equipment through these streets," he said."We are moving with great cautiousness also because the walls of houses and shops adjacent to the mosque are fragile especially after the heav...
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| Intriguing Figuig - a Moroccan oasis |
| 2010-02-19 15:26:00 |
Few travellers to Morocco ever find their way to Figuig, an oasis town on the Algerian border in the far east of the country. And that's a pity, as The View from Fez team found out from US Peace Corps volunteers, Jack and Ina Boatright.Figuig palmeraieIna and Jack are interested in promoting tourism to the area. But it would be a special kind of tourism, says Jack. Here's his report:First impressions are that Figuig is an attractive, unique part of the Moroccan Sahara. This is especially true for Zenaga, the oldest Ksar of the seven Ksours of this oasis. The most obvious element of Figuig is the vast palm grove, or palmeraie, of about 200,000 date palms.Zenaga is a neighborhood or Ksar located within the palmeraie. Passageways through the Zenaga palmeraie are characterized largely by mud-b...
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