Half A Woman 'Found In A Suitcase' In Morocco
Private security guards discovered an abandoned suitcase in a Casablanca, Morocco train station that contained the upper half of a woman, the AFP repo...
Private security guards discovered an abandoned suitcase in a Casablanca, Morocco train station that contained the upper half of a woman, the AFP repo...
Moscow Times | Posted 06.22.2009 | World
President Dmitry Medvedev is embarking Tuesday on a four-day African tour, beginning with a visit to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak before moving on...
AFP | Posted 06.15.2009 | World
Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi on Monday sued three Moroccan newspapers for defamation, seeking eight million euros in damages for "attacks on the digni...
Razoo | Razoo | Posted 06.11.2009 | Home
On a trip to Morocco in 1977, mechanical engineer Don Schoendorfer saw an indigent woman who was unable to walk, reduced to crawling across the stree...
GlobalPost | Erik German | Posted 06.09.2009 | World
RABAT, Morocco -- In the lottery of arranged marriage, winners and losers sometimes take years to reveal themselves. But one soft-spoken woman seat...
Mark Levine | Posted 06.06.2009 | World
For all its well-intentioned rhetoric, President Obama's speech was, sadly, conceptually flawed, empirically challenged, and politically blind to the daily realities that drive hundreds of millions of Muslims to increasing despair.
Michael Fauntroy | Posted 06.04.2009 | World
To be the first African-American president with a heritage that includes Islam gives him Obama legitimacy than any other president to make this speech.
AFP | Posted 05.21.2009 | World
A group of alleged Islamists recently arrested in Morocco planned to attack Jewish interests in the country, a court source said Thursday, citing the ...
Bill Mann | Posted 05.14.2009 | Entertainment
You might do well on the show. But actually getting there is, well, brutal -- actually, almost impossible. I found out the hard way.
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.01.2009 | Home
Women don jelabas in Morocco. See more photos from producer Rebecca Haggerty below. Worldfocus producer Rebecca Haggerty is currently reporti...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.01.2009 | Home
Women don jelabas in Morocco. See more photos from producer Rebecca Haggerty below. Worldfocus producer Rebecca Haggerty is currently reporti...
Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din | Posted 04.12.2009 | World
There is something really cool and special about seeing a girl wearing a Hijab who throws up the universal Metal/Rock sign with her hands.
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 03.15.2009 | Media
While pundits bemoan the demise of U.S. investigative journalism (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/russell-wild-and-margaret-engel/the-demise-of-investig...
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 03.13.2009 | World
The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Pakistan: Yet Another Path to Failure Facts: Pakistan's government arrests hundreds of "dissidents" includi...
Cathleen Falsani | Posted 03.07.2009 | Living
Without a line on the horizon, we may feel like there is no limit to how far we can go. But it also makes the seas difficult to navigate. That is, in...
AP | ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU | Posted 03.06.2009 | World
RABAT, Morocco — Morocco cut off diplomatic relations with Iran on Friday, accusing Tehran in a rare public spat of trying to spread Shia Islam ...
Andy Worthington | Posted 02.23.2009 | World
I thought it appropriate to relate a few anecdotes that bring Binyam the human being, rather than Binyam the prisoner, to life.
John Feffer | Posted 02.03.2009 | World
Why are more than a dozen of the world's navies converging on Somalia to battle pirates there instead of sailing into New York to capture the Wall Street pirates?
Pablo Ganguli | Posted 01.29.2009 | Style
I still do not know what possessing Indian nationality signifies. I have always felt so very un-Indian with only rare flashbacks of nostalgia for things from the sub-continent.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 01.28.2009 | World
The true test of Obama's presidency will not only be the innovative statecraft of its regional diplomacy, but also his ability to mobilize a comprehensive initiative to lift the Arab world out of its economic and social poverty.
Jillian York | Posted 01.23.2009 | World
What is Moroccan identity? Is it Arab identity? The official language of Morocco certainly is Arabic, but it is estimated that 23 of Morocco's 30 million people speak one of three Amazigh dialects.
Jillian York | Posted 12.26.2008 | World
Algerian-American blogger The Moor Next Door has reported on a campaign set up by Moroccans to encourage President-Elect Barack Obama to make his first speech abroad in Morocco.
Jillian York | Posted 11.03.2008 | Home
Bloggers based in Morocco -- both Moroccan natives and foreign residents -- are musing over potential election outcomes. They have more to say than "Yes we can!" Here's a peek.
Andy Worthington | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
As the Washington Post reported yesterday, the U.S. Justice Department has dropped the key allegation against British resident and Guantánamo prisone...
Jillian York | Posted 10.13.2008 | Home
One second Obama is Arab, the next he's Muslim. These words are thrown around and serve as an insult. So basically, in the United States, instead of telling someone his mama is a whore, telling him that his mama is an Arab will now suffice.
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Huffington Post | Posted 07.06.2009 | World