Category Archives: ECONOMY

Morocco’s Museum Of Things I Can’t Afford

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

As I sat in Fanajeen, Aasmaa, Akhannouch’s café, contemplating a map of Morocco amputated of its southern provinces in a Morocco Mall brochure while sipping from my 30 dirhams cup of coffee, I couldn’t help thinking Salwa Idrisi Akhannouch, the … Continue reading →

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GCC: Scrambling for Allies

Posted on May 23, 2011 by

No serious predictive analysis could have ever averred that Morocco and Jordan would be considered for membership in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Not even the amazing astrologer Maguy Farah could have predicted it. The GCC’s invitation for Morocco and … Continue reading →

Posted in Arab League, Arab World, Democracy, ECONOMY, GCC, MOROCCO, Saudi Arabia | Tagged | 3 Comments

For Life Alone

Posted on March 18, 2009 by

There are snippets of conversations that cling to your memory insusceptible to the effacing effect of time. I will never forget one such a conversation I had with some American friends twenty years ago. We were having dinner and talking … Continue reading →

Posted in Democracy, ECONOMY, HUMAN RIGHTS, JUSTICE, MOROCCO, POVERTY, Terrorism | 9 Comments

THE ARAB LEAGUE OF SYCOPHANTS

Posted on March 31, 2008 by

The Arab League Summit has concluded on a note the Arab street has, unfortunately, grown accustomed to: hollow rhetoric of condemnations, recycled resolutions chief of which is an independent Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital, and the senselessly obdurate demand … Continue reading →

Posted in Arab League, Arab World, Democracy, ECONOMY, HUMAN RIGHTS, Iraq, Lebanon, PEACE, POVERTY, Terrorism | 2 Comments

LIVE FROM BAGHDAD

Posted on March 21, 2008 by

I remember a time in Baghdad when the pungent smell of decomposing bodies was pervasive. Dead bodies littered the streets for days, even weeks before Iraqis dared to bury them. “We couldn’t come out, but we had to,” says Ja’ffar, … Continue reading →

Posted in Arab World, Children, Democracy, Department of Defense, ECONOMY, George W. Bush, Iraq, Military, POVERTY, Terrorism, Torture, United States | 1 Comment

HELPLESS, DYING CHILDREN

Posted on March 8, 2008 by

Not in Palestine. Here in Morocco. Changes in the Moroccan social fabric are easily discernable. One could see how deteriorating the situation of Morocco’s street children is. The poverty is more rampant now than a few years ago. So are … Continue reading →

Posted in Children, Democracy, ECONOMY, MOROCCO, POVERTY | 4 Comments

HOW DOES MOROCCO FARE?

Posted on March 7, 2008 by

      (PHOTO BY CANDACE FEIT)  An Article in the Washington Post reported today that Susan E. Rice, a senior fellow from the Brookings Institution and a former assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 1997 to 2001, and Stewart … Continue reading →

Posted in ECONOMY, MOROCCO, POVERTY, Terrorism | 2 Comments