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| Unique Visitors: 387 |
| Total Unique Visitors: 3042951 |
| Visitors Out: 6361 |
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| The best little restaurant in Fes - update |
| 2008-05-12 15:43:00 |
Thami's restaurant has been closed for the last week and at first it caused concern amongst his regular patrons who worried that he might have closed. Thankfully that was not the case and now Thami (pictured above) has reopened with brand new décor - all fresh and bright. The food? The food is as good as ever.For a few years Thami's was a well kept secret among the Moroccans and expat locals. Slowly the word got out and he is now listed in the guide books. However, it still takes some skill to find his tiny kitchen and the three small tables.Tourists visiting Fez are usually guided to "palace" restaurants where the menu is Moroccan salads, chicken or lamb tagine with couscous followed by fruit and mint tea. For the average visitor, street food is so...
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| Travel Writing about Morocco #19 |
| 2008-05-12 10:07:00 |
Continuing our series on travel writing about Morocco, we turn our attention to the Guardian website where Doug McKinlay limps along with a piece about Moulay Idriss (pictured above and below).Unfortunately along with interviewing the mayor he takes a quite swipe at writers of travel guides. His lack of collegial appreciation of his fellow scribes is only surpassed by his rather lazy and inaccurate shot at Lonely Planet...Publishers and websites are only now waking up to Moulay Idriss's open-door policy. The latest edition of Lonely Planet's Morocco states: 'The embargo on non-Muslims staying overnight has only recently been lifted.' But it goes on to recommend two restaurants that are n...
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| Reminder: upcoming concerts in Fez. |
| 2008-05-12 08:45:00 |
Just a reminder. If you would like to enjoy one or both of the next two concerts at Riad Zany, then you need to send us a quick email - fes.riad@gmail.com and put "concert booking" in the subject line.Please note all concerts start at 9pm and there is a 50 dirham donation at the door which is strictly for the musicians and expenses.We can only accommodate 70 people and so first in...Concert One. Bernard CarneyOn the weekend of May 24/25 Bernard Carney will perform at Riad Zany on the Saturday (24th) and will follow up with a smaller event at Cafe Clock on the Sunday (25th)."Bernard Carney is a great all-round musician in the tradition of the folk troubadour. He has a unique talent as songwriter, guitarist and singer all peppered with passion and humour."Port Fairy Festival Director Jamie M...
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| Café Clock happenings |
| 2008-05-12 07:20:00 |
It is hard to keep up with all the events at the tic toc - but here is what Clock Culture organised for the next 10 days at Café Clock - and the new kitchen opening times. From Tuesday May13 - Café Clock will be serving food and drinks from9 a.m. to 10p.m., including breakfasts, delicious pastries, and a fulllunch and evening menu. Closed Mondays ( for the moment!).TODAY – 4p.m. Poetry Reading – Sabul Assalam Centre - Ouadia El Ghazi.Sunday 11 : 3 – 5p.m. Calligraphy @ the Clock. Open table.( 350 dh - Discounts available)Sunday 11 : 5:30 – 7p.m. Sunday Sunset Concert.Jazz Blues. ( 20 dh )NEWTuesday 13 : New kitchen opening schedule. 9a.m – 10.p.mWednesday 14 : 10 –12 Clock Language Conversation Group ; Darija.( 50 dh Disc...
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| Scorpion stings in Morocco |
| 2008-05-10 12:01:00 |
Recently we published a story on snakebites in Morocco and had several emails asking about scorpions and whether they were a problem. The answer is a big YES.According to figures from the Moroccan Centre national antipoison et de pharmacovigilance (CAPM) (poisons and drug monitoring center) scorpion stings kill about 100 under 15s every year, in a total of some 30,000 cases of scorpion poisoning documented yearly in Morocco. There is a particular danger between July and August each year. It should also be noted that over 60 percent of stings are at night.To stem this scourge, a nationwide campaign themed "Together Save our Children from Death from Scorpion Stings," was launched on Friday in the city of Essaouira. It is aiming at reducing the mortality rat...
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| Morocco decides to switch to daylight saving. |
| 2008-05-09 14:18:00 |
Want to save time and energy? Then Morocco is the place. Morocco is to save energy by adjusting its clock during summer so it will be one hour ahead of GMT between 1 June and 27 September, according to Communication Minister and Government Spokesman, Khalid Naciri. "This measure will allow us to save energy and to align the time zone with Morocco’s regional and international partners including the EU countries".In the 1980s, Morocco used to adjust its clock during the summer time, but later cancelled the process.Tags: Moroccan Morocco Fes, Maghreb news...
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| A House in Fez - now available in the UK |
| 2008-05-09 13:33:00 |
Suzanna Clarke's best seller A House in Fez, is now available in the UK. Published in Britain by Ebury Press (Random House). The book is a paperback version of the Australian collectors' edition, which sold out in six weeks. The English edition does not have as many photographs as the Australian (Penguin) version, but nevertheless is a great insight into Moroccan culture, music, cuisine and daily life.The American (paperback) version will come out from Simon and Schuster in New York in November, a reprint in Australia will be available in December and the Korean language version should be in print some time soon.A House in Fez is a journey into Moroccan culture, revealing its day-to-day rhythms, its customs and festivals; its history, Islam, and Sufi ritual...
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| Tahar Ben Jelloun - now a member of the Goncourt Academy. |
| 2008-05-07 13:12:00 |
On Tuesday the Moroccan writer, Tahar Ben Jelloun ( pictured above), was unanimously elected a member of the Goncourt Academy. Founded in 1903, the Paris-based Academy each year awards a writer as "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year." Born in 1944, Mr. Ben Jelloun is a prominent figure of French literature. He has written several books, which made him world-famous. His works include The Sacred Night" (1987), "Racism Explained to My Daughter" (1998) and "Sand Child" (1985). In 2007, the French-speaking writer and poet was awarded the insignia of Officer of the French "Legion of Honor" (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur) by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. He had also received the Knight insignia of the National order by late French ...
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| New shop on Tala'a Kebira |
| 2008-05-07 08:53:00 |
Lumen was sauntering down Tala'a Kebira and dropped into Made in M, a recently-opened shop with a distinctively different feel.The interesting thing about this shop is that it stocks what it calls new Moroccan craft. There are the usual tagines, the leather handbags, the tassels, the argane oil products, but all in a new and exciting range of colours and textures. And the shop-fitting is a new departure for the Fez Medina.The most striking products are the exquisite leather bags, which don't come cheap at Dh1750 each. There's a wide range of scented candles in metal-worked glass jars as well as pretty little betassled tadelakt boxes in a range of colours that start at Dh85. Argane oil is scented with flower waters and essential oils such as neroli, patchouli...
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| World's oldest Jewels - discovered in Morocco |
| 2008-05-06 02:11:00 |
Photo credit: Ian Cartwright, Institute of Archaeology, Oxford University "The beads themselves comprise 12 Nassarius shells - Nassarius are molluscs found in warm seas and coral reefs in America, Asia and the Pacific - which had holes in them and appeared to have been suspended or hung. They were covered in red ochre."Grotte des PigeonsAbdeljalil Bouzouggar, from the Moroccan Institut National des Sciences de l'Archéologie et du Patrimoine. (Institute of Archaeology), and colleagues found the shells in the Grotte des Pigeons, a limestone cave in eastern Morocco, alongside burnt stone remains in well-layered soil. An Institute of Archaeology team from Oxford University has been working with their Moroccan colleagues on the site for some t...
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| Medina has unfair advantage? |
| 2008-05-03 03:32:00 |
Reading the sports pages as we do, and watching the tennis here in Fez we came across the results that say...Medina advances in Semi FinalsFEZ, Morocco, -- Top-seeded Medina Garrigues of Spain advanced to the semifinals of the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, routing Olga Savchuk of Ukraine 6-1, 6-1 on Friday.And the question has to be asked ... what chance does someone called Olga have over someone called Medina? Tags: Moroccan Morocco Fes, Maghreb news...
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| New British Ambassador appointed to Morocco. |
| 2008-05-02 14:50:00 |
According to news from the British Foreign Office, Morocco has a new Ambassador for Great Britain.The new ambassador is Timothy Morris and he will also act as and Britain's non-resident Ambassador to The Islamic Republic of Mauritania in succession to Mr Charles Gray CMG who will become Her Majesty's Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps in September 2008. Mr Morris will take up his appointment during August 2008.Welcome aboard Tim!For those who want the details our Foreign Affairs reporter lists the following information:Full Name: Timothy Colin MorrisMarried to: Patricia Tena Children: Three sons 2005 - 2008 FCO, Head of International Organisations Department2003 - 2005 Lisbon, Deputy Head of Mission1998 - 2002 ...
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| New tax on guesthouses |
| 2008-05-02 10:17:00 |
The Commune of Fez has slapped a new tax on guesthouses in the medina, and owners are up in arms, The View from Fez has learned.There's always been an Dh8 taxe de promotion touristique per person per night that guesthouses either add to the bill of their guests, or cost into their price structure. But now there's a new taxe de sejour of Dh30 per person per night. And to add insult to injury, guesthouse owners have to pay this retrospectively from January 2008. Apparently there has not been any notice of this new tax, so owners have not been charging their guests this amount over the last four months.'I'm scandalised! I've just spent all my profits for the first three months of the year in paying these back taxes', moaned one guesthouse owner.It's not good for Fez visitors either who now h...
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| Air Arabia to fly from Morocco |
| 2008-05-01 02:27:00 |
Budget carrier Air Arabia will open a hub in Morocco in the later half of this year in order to connect to European destinations. This will be its third hub. Its base is in Sharjah and this year launched its second hub in Kathmandu, Nepal, in a joint venture with Yeti Airlines.According to Adel Ali, CEO of Air Arabia, "We do not have an exact date yet but we are looking at starting operations from our Morocco hub sometime in the fourth quarter of this year. The whole objective is to connect to Europe, North Africa and more Middle East destinations via Morocco."For its hub in Rabat, Air Arabia has entered into a joint venture with Morocco's leading private carrier, Regional Air Lines and Bahrain-based investment bank, Ithmaar Bank.Air Arabia originally int...
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| Tennis in Morocco - New Zealand stumbles. |
| 2008-04-28 15:49:00 |
For the Kiwi expats who wanted good news about New Zealand No 1 Marina Erakovic - there is none. She was eliminated in the first round of the WTA grand prix women's tennis tournament in Fez today. Erakovic tells us her serve let her down in the second and third sets. Her opponent started to play better and got some of her serves back and played well, she reflected.Tennis is not big with the locals in fact The View from Fez couldn't find one person who knew the event was happening.Anyway, here are the gory details of Marina's exit.She was beaten 2-6 6-3 6-2 in the first round by 98th ranked Romanian Sorana Cirstea.She will now focus on the doubles and is seeded fourth with partner Russian Alina Jidkova.T...
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| Morocco withdraws Ukrainian sunflower oil from market |
| 2008-04-28 10:41:00 |
Morocco will withdraw a batch of Ukrainian sunflower oil from its market as part of the country's precaution measures following the discovery of batches of contaminated sunflower oil imported from this country in several European Union (EU) countries, the agriculture and fisheries Ministry said. The announcement followed the discovery on April 23, of batches of this oil in five EU member-countries, namely, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The ministry also reported, in a press release, that the Moroccan batch of the Ukrainian sunflower oil had been imported to Morocco in 2008, noting that controls revealed that the oil concerned represents no risk for h...
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| Second fire in Casablanca |
| 2008-04-28 10:35:00 |
Three people were killed in a blaze, in the early hours of Monday morning, in a Casablanca tapestry factory.An investigation was opened by authorities to determine the causes of this blaze that occurred less than 36 hours after a Casablanca mattress factory located in a poor industrial neighbourhood in Casablanca, went up in flames on Saturday morning, killing 55 people. The owner of the factory and his son were arrested as part of the investigation.Casablanca's Wali, Mohamed Kabbaj, attributed the heavy death toll to the large number of people working at the time -100 - as well as the presence of flammable products, while the head of Casablanca's civil protection unit, Mustapha Taouil, said that the doors of the four-storey factory building were locke...
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| Snake bites in Morocco. |
| 2008-04-27 07:57:00 |
Vipera lebetinaSnake bites are responsible for a high mortality rate in Africa where the overall mortality of bites is around 4%.. Problems for the early care of the victims are many due to lack of medical services with serum in isolated locations..In the Morocco bites are often caused by the lebetin viper (Vipera lebetina) or the horned viper or sand viper (Cerastes cerastes).Vipera lebetina.A very corpulent viper, well camouflaged and often just laying on the ground near or even in small water pits, waiting for birds to approach. When passing the snake, it usually doesn't move, what makes it easily overseen by hikers.Identification:This matt greyish to dun-brown coloured snake is very corpulent and can reach the thickne...
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| Catastrophic fire in Casablanca kills 55. |
| 2008-04-26 15:55:00 |
Although the official estimates were lower it is now believed that a fire this morning in a Casablanca mattress factory has injured a dozen people and killed at least 55 people. Over one hundred fire-fighters took part in the attempt to quell the blaze. One of the seriously injured is a police officer.The domestic MAP news agency, citing the emergency services, said the fire broke out on the ground floor of the four-storey Rosamor Furniture plant at around 10 a.m. (1000 GMT), when 155 employees were present.The cause of the blaze is suspected to be an accident but an investigation is under way and the owner of the plant and his son, who was its manager, are being questioned as prosecutors open an investigation.In an AFP report a fire-fighter is quoted ...
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| Fez Sacred Music Festival - a musician's pick. |
| 2008-04-26 13:21:00 |
Dan Hipgrave (pictured above), former guitarist with British indie rock band Toploader, picks the best of this summer's music festivals for the UK newspaper The Telegraph and places the Fes Sacred Music Festival in the top three.Here is what he had to say:When it comes to summer festivals, I count myself very lucky. I – along with 90,000 deliriously happy mud-caked fans – saw Radiohead deliver their best ever performance at Glastonbury in 1997. Two years later my band, Toploader, appeared on the same stage and I experienced the exhilaration of playing in front of a similar-sized crowd.Since then, I have checked out other British festivals and ...
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| 13th Chellah Jazz festival organized in Morocco |
| 2008-04-24 09:16:00 |
The 13th Chellah Jazz festival in Rabat is being organized, between 12-16 June, by the European Commission Delegation to Morocco and the embassies and cultural institutes of EU member states, in partnership with the country’s Ministry of Culture.For the 13th year, the historic site of Chellah will play home to a musical dialogue among cultures, as a number of European and Arab musicians are taking part in this event.We have not had a chance to translate the following information, but will do so soon, inshallah.Le festival Jazz au Chellah aura lieu du 12 au 16 juin sur le magnifique site qui lui a donné son nom. Depuis sa création, le Festival de Jazz au Chellah, qui en est sa 13ème a...
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| The Fes Festival of Sufi Culture - final night. |
| 2008-04-24 03:39:00 |
Tonight is the final night of the Fes Sufi Festival and it should be a great one. Starting at nine in the Batha Museum the concert includes Mohammed Ba Jeddoub (pictured left) from Morocco and Musa Dieng Kala (below left) from Senegal .Despite some rain that caused the switching of venues, this year's festival has been a great success and congratulations go to the director Faouzi Skali and his wonderful team of workers. The staff at the venues have been a great help to us in covering the events. Lastly to the musicians and performers - thanks for your energy and inspirationTags: Moroccan Morocco Fes, Maghreb news...
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| Visitors in the Medina |
| 2008-04-24 02:49:00 |
From time to time The View from Fez does a feature on visitors to the Medina, sometimes new residents, sometimes interesting tourists. Now, while we failed to get an interview with yesterday's guest, we did get some photographs. Pieris brassicae brassicae(Click on images to enlarge)At first glance we thought it might have been the beautiful Gonepteryx cleopatra (pictured below), but the colour of the abdomen let us down. Our visitor is(so we are told) as common as muck! Yep... It's a cabbage butterfly. Oh well, we hope later in the year to get a shot of an Atlas Blue....For those interested in Moroccan lepidoptera, we suggest you check out the beautiful photographs by Jean Delacre. Photo credits: Pieris brassicae brassicae: Sandy McCutcheon ...
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| Spinning gold from straw at the Ain Azleten souk |
| 2008-04-23 10:01:00 |
Lumen has been pottering around in the junk souk at Ain Azleten, forever on the lookout for that interesting objet to transform a room ...The souk is a bit of an eyesore from a distance, two lines of shanty-town shacks on the hillside, next to the mosque at the Ain Azleten lower car park. But it's definitely worth a wander. You can pick up just about any kind of tool from tile-cutters to pliers, as well as a wealth of used catering machines such as mincers and fridges. But if you're not in the market for a second-hand toilet, browse a bit further and use your imagination.Lumen spotted a curly wrought-iron Singer sewing machine table, complete with treadle, that she bought for a song, added a marble top and produced a great terrace table. There are old cedar doors galore, window frames with...
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| The Festival of Sufi Culture - Update |
| 2008-04-23 04:13:00 |
Monday afternoon turned out to be one of the festival highlights with an amazing performance by the Hamadcha and Aissawa brotherhoods. Frédéric Calmès and Nathalie Château-Artaud introduced the different sections of the ceremony by reflecting on the place of music as therapy. The Aissawa Brotherhood, like the Hamadcha, uses trance as part of its musical ritual. In the case of the Aissawiyyia this practice is dedicated to their founding saint, the celebrated Cheikh El Kamel, ‘the Perfect Master’. In the case of the Hamadcha, their saint is Sidi Ali ben Hamdush. Both brotherhoods have long used music as a method of curing disorders. According to research done by anthropologists the cure rate in the area of mental health surpasses western psych...
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| Internet outage... |
| 2008-04-23 04:10:00 |
Our apologies for the lack of updates yesterday. The View from Fez was hit by one of the rare internet outages that strike the Medina from time to time. Thankfully our friend Taoufic sorted us out and we are back on line.Tags: Moroccan Morocco Fes, Maghreb news...
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| Medina Gossip #3504 |
| 2008-04-21 03:02:00 |
Once again it is time to round up the gossip on the streets of the Fez Medina and our spies have been out and about discovering a mixed bag of offerings from blues musicians at the Clock to unrest in the Ville Nouvelle over visual pollution.Recent visitors returning to Morocco after a break of 48 years were Henry and Meg Clarke from Mullumbimby in Australia. All those years ago architect Henry and Meg travelled in a VW bug right around Morocco - no mean feat back in those days. While in Fez Henry regaled us with tales of a Morocco long gone. One of the things that impressed him this time was the way Morocco has developed so fast and yet retained its essential character. Back on their first visit the intrepid couple had amazing adventures camping, straying ...
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| Moroccan support for education of disabled children |
| 2008-04-19 05:51:00 |
On SWednesday the Ministry of Social Development, Family and Solidarity, signed a 1.3Mn USD partnership agreement with associations working in the field of education to support disabled children from poor families. The initiative is to benefit some 1,301 children, including 467 girls and 834 boys. It includes 43 specialized centres spread over Morocco’s different regions. Under these agreements the Ministry commits to bear the costs of education for disabled children from needy families during 2007-2008 school year. Speaking on this occasion, Minister of Social Development, Family and Solidarity, Nouzha Skalli, said that the signed agreements aim at ensuring more suitable ed...
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| Ifrane to get upgrade |
| 2008-04-19 05:04:00 |
Yesterday King Mohammed VI presided over the signing ceremony of a convention to develop and upgrade a tourist resort in Ifrane (200km east of Rabat) for a sum amounting to USD 46.36Mn.The project, to be carried out by the Moroccan-Kuwaiti Consortium, is part of a project dubbed "Biladi" designed to promote domestic tourism. The new resort will be built on an area of 30ha with an accommodation capacity of 1,450 beds in the form of tourist residences and camping sites.Launched back in July 2007, the "Biladi" plan provides for the creation of eight new tourist stations in the most popular tourist cities in Morocco, such as Marrakech, Casablanca, El-Jadida, Agadir, Essaidia, Tangiers, Fes, and Kenitra. It is planned to raise the country's hosting capacity to 9 million overnight stays by 2012,...
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| Author back in Fez. |
| 2008-04-18 10:07:00 |
The well known Australian author, Suzanna Clarke, is back in Morocco for a short visit. She was seen at the opening of the Sufi Festival last evening and (so rumour has it) at Cafe Clock, sampling the "eggs Florentine!Suzanna Clarke - back in Fez.Suzanna is well known around Fez for the renovation work on Riad Zany and her runaway best seller - A House in Fez. In Australia the hardback collectors' edition sold out in a matter of weeks. According to several local guest-house owners the book has resulted in an increase in visitors from Australia and New Zealand. They can expect a lot more visitors from among Ms Clarke's readers as the book is being released in the UK and Ireland next week and in the USA in November. At around the same time other translations...
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| Morocco to serve the worlds biggest buffet??? |
| 2008-04-18 10:03:00 |
Some 5,000 visitors are expected in Rabat to sample a vast number of different dishes to be served on a 300-m buffet - possibly the world's largest! Themed "together to bring our peoples closer through our cultures", this event will gather the most popular dishes of some twenty countries in a "festival of taste and fondness of good food" is also meant to bring peoples closer through presenting their cultures (gastronomy, folklore and musical heritage) and offers the opportunity to participants to share the friendship. In addition to world dishes, this event will also feature artistic events (paintings, sculpture and traditional arts) of the participating countries, as musical and dancing bands will come from the four corners of the world to perform i...
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| Fez Festival of Sufi Culture - opening night. |
| 2008-04-18 05:00:00 |
Last night saw the opening concert of the second Fez Festival of Sufi Culture. The festival runs until April 24 and promises to surpass last year's event. The View from Fez attended and would like to congratulate Festival Director, Faouzi Skali on a wonderful evening.Jean Claude Carrière reading RumiFor the opening night of the Sufi Festival a large crowd were entertained by Nahal Tajadod (Iran) and Jean Claude Carrière (France) giving readings of Rumi « Sur les pas de Rûmi » in Persian and French to the accompaniment of a ney player.Nahal Tajadod (centre) in full flight!A small section of the international audienceThe setting for the concert at the Batha Museum was perfect and thank...
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| Moroccans Celebrate Their History |
| 2008-04-16 10:14:00 |
Have you been wondering why the buses have been decorated with red plastic coats, why there are pretty red and green shields on the lampposts, new decorative lights all over town and banners all over the medina? Lumen has the story.An ambitious programme of events scheduled for the rest of the year was launched at the beginning of April to celebrate Douze siecles de la vie d'un Royaume - Twelve centuries in the life of a Kingdom. It's Fez's birthday - and the city is twelve centuries old this year.Fez is a 'model of coexistence between civilisations and cultures', says His Majesty King Mohamed VI in his opening speech. 'We are determined to support the city in its vocation as a source of inspiration to stimulate artistic and artisinal creation, a spirit of enterprise, the dynamism of prod...
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| How do you find a cello in Fez? |
| 2008-04-13 10:12:00 |
The View from Fez needs help! We have a musician coming for a Riad Zany & Clock Cafe concert who needs to borrow a cello. The problem is the airline flying her from the UK says her cello is too big for hand luggage and she does not want it thrown in the hold.Can you find a cello for Rebecca?So if you can help with a cello for Rebecca Wright during the last weekend in May - email fes.riad@gmail.com - and you will also get two free tickets to either concert.Tags: Moroccan Morocco Fes, Maghreb news...
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| A Portrait of the Artist ... |
| 2008-04-13 09:21:00 |
Jess - a self-portraitLumen recently caught up with artist Jess Stephens, Cultural Co-ordinator at Cafe Clock. Here's what Jess has to say about her role at the Clock and life in Fez:Before settling in Fez, I was a practising artist and teacher in Barcelona, Northern Spain, for eight years, involved in exhibitions and creative projects. Catalonia's capital city is rich in culture platforms and programmes.I'm here in Morocco to realise a desire to set up an artist's residency programme in a rich and interesting culture, where visual artists, musicians and the literary can be inspired and informed, exchange ideas and share knowledge.I first came to Morocco with this dream in 2005, and spent my adventures investigating pote...
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| Passion for Fez |
| 2008-04-09 14:29:00 |
Passion for the Planet is a UK radio station broadcasting on DAB to London, Essex, Bournemouth, Bristol and Bath, Devon and Peterborough, and is also available via the internet. Passion reaches an audience of health, environment, spirituality and personal development-focused adults. Its audience is open-minded, keen to change the world and live a more ethical, sustainable lifestyle.And it's Passion for the Planet that has become the first-ever UK media partner for the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music. Here's the Press Release:Award-winning DAB radio station Passion for the Planet has been chosen as the first ever UK media partner for the hugely successful Fes Festival of World Sacred Music in Morocco.The Festival, in its 14th year, takes place from 6-14...
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| 5000 Bustards released in Morocco |
| 2008-04-05 11:54:00 |
The Houbara Bustard, Chlamydotis undulata, is a large bird in the bustard family and is widely prized in Arabia and Pakistan for its meat; widespread hunting has almost put it on the endangered list. Now the bird is making a come back in Morocco - thanks to the UAE.General Shaikh Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, has participated in the release of more than 5,000 houbaras in an area of about 300km inside the eastern desert of Morocco.General Shaikh Mohammad said: "This release of the houbaras in North Africa was necessary to meet the continuous decline of houbara numbers due to the destruction of their wintering and breeding habitat, over-trapping and over-hunting in addition to il...
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| Encounter Fez with Lonely Planet |
| 2008-04-04 09:33:00 |
Lonely Planet's Fez Encounter 1 is hot off the press and is already proving a hit with visitors, discovered Lumen, who caught up with Steph and Tim Newton at Cafe Clock.The Newtons of Ipswich arrived in Morocco well equipped with a copy of Fez Encounter 1, just launched at the end of March. They'd come all the way from their home town by train, an interesting (and environmentally friendly) way to travel. Staying at Dar el Hana, they had already visited Seffarine Square, the Nejjarine Museum and the snail stall on the corner of Derb el Horra on their first full day in Fez. Tim and Steph loved the pocket-size book, saying that the maps are excellent, especially the pull-out one that's a convenient size. They found the ide...
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| The Fez - Sarkozy connection. |
| 2008-03-31 00:27:00 |
The View from Fez was slipped the details by our French correspondent WW that Sarkozy's ex wife has rushed into a new marriage - with a man from Fez. We checked it out and here is the story.French President Nicolas Sarkozy's former wife Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz has remarried at a private ceremony in New York's Rockefeller Center in what has been described as a "revenge wedding". She wed Moroccan-born public relations executive Richard Attias in the New York landmark's Rainbow Room. Richard comes from the spiritual heart of Morocco - the ancient Medina of Fez. Arriving in a black limousine with tinted windows, the couple avoided photographers by using an underground car park. Mr Sarkozy himself remarried less than two months ago. He tied the knot with Carla Bruni on 2 February - less th...
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| A thought for the day. |
| 2008-03-29 05:02:00 |
The visitor to a place whose charm is a result of its backwardness is inclined to hope it will remain that way, regardless of how those who live in it may feel. The seeker of the picturesque sees the spread of improved techniques as an unalloyed abomination. - Paul Bowles ( from the introduction to his book - Their Heads are Green)Tags: Moroccan Morocco Fes, Maghreb news...
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