Through sheer luck, his name was chosen in the Green card lottery to immigrate to the United States of America. Abdelghani Waamrou, a Tata-native, worked in a restaurant in New York City, before moving to Houston and becoming a police officer to (...)
On Sunday, the official Algerian news agency published an article on the Sahara… located in Egypt, believing that the case was linked to Western Sahara.
On Sunday, the Algerie Presse Service (APS) news agency published an article in which it (...)
Former Moroccan footballer Adil Glia has worked at the foundation of the English West Ham United football team for two years, after a long journey that began with the Salé Association team.
After former Moroccan footballer Adil Glia started working (...)
Youssef Zaitra was a member of the FAR handball team before he decided to immigrate to Finland in 1999. There, he decided to study football training, and now he works at the Helsinki Football Club Academy, the best of its kind in the (...)
Right before the government council approved Bill 13-21 on the legal use of cannabis in Morocco, Saadeddine El Othmani tried to convince Abdelilah Benkirane to change his position on the text, which has shaken during the month of February, the (...)
Aicha al-Maslouhi is a Palestinian of Moroccan origin who still lives today in Harat al-Maghariba, in Al Quds. She tells Yabiladi about the district offered by Salaheddine El Ayoubi to the Moroccans who helped him free Al Quds during the (...)
Many Moroccan Internet users reacted to a sequence broadcast on the Algerian channel Echourouk caricaturing King Mohammed VI. Even the head of the Moroccan government expressed his indignation in a diplomatic tone.
Algerian TV channel Echourouk, (...)
On Monday March 16, the Ministry of National Education announced the start of distance learning and teaching programs after the Moroccan government shut down schools and universities to avoid the spread of the novel coronavirus. Students were (...)
On Friday, Morocco declared a state of heath emergency to deal with the spread of coronavirus. The decsion is not the first of its kind as in the 18th and 19th centuries, the plague forced the Kingdom to impose a nationwide quarantine.
Moroccans (...)
In October, Moroccan cook Abdessamad El Idrissi won the title of world's pizza champion in Italy. His achievement was coming from sheer coincidence.
Sheer luck was behind Abdessamad El Idrissi's achievements. Settled in France, the Moroccan is now (...)
Born in Al Hoceima, Mohamed El Badaoui is a Spain-based scriptwriter and movie director. His love for his region, the Rif, pushed him to make several movies about the rural world in Morocco and the problems and challenges facing it (...)
While Morocco has not commented officially yet on the current Iranian crisis, Moroccan Shiites broke their silence, denouncing the death of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.
Moroccan political parties have not paid much attention to the current (...)
In the absence of a Moroccan official delegation, the Justice and Charity Group and the Unity and Reform Movement attended an Islamic summit in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur. The latter was marked by tensions between Riyadh and Ankara.
The (...)
After spending eight years in prison following the 1981 bread riots in Casablanca, Mustapha Benhassioua decided to immigrate to Switzerland and apply for political asylum. His plans, however, were foiled when he was jailed for hijacking.
On June 20, (...)
On Thursday, Raja Casablanca will play against Palestinian football team Hilal Al-Quds in Faisal Al-Husseini, a stadium in the city of Al Quds. While many see the trip Raja fans will make to Jerusalem as a way of normalizing with the Israeli entity, (...)
Drinking coffee in Morocco, is a privilege, according to those who think of the days when caffeine consumers were considered outsiders and criminals. History books recall the era when Muslim scholars forbade drinking coffee.
Drinking a cup of coffee (...)
In 1981, King Hassan II of Morocco flew to the Kenyan capital to participate in an Organization of African Unity summit. In Nairobi, he announced that Morocco is ready to agree to a referendum on the self-determination of the Sahara. Three years (...)
Israeli newspaper Times of Israel published an article on aid granted by Israelis to isolated villages in Morocco. The newspaper reports that many Amazighs «identify with the modern State of Israel and the Jews».
This is the story of a Moroccan (...)
In Algeria, «sovereign authorities» are studying alongside academics and specialists the possibility of reopening the land border separating Morocco from their country. But a concrete decision related to the issue would be delayed by presidential (...)
TELMA was Morocco's first television channel, which started operating a few years before the country broke free from the French. The channel, which was mainly influenced by the French, had a short-lived experience and was rejected by (...)
Pope Sylvester II, who studied at Morocco's Al Quaraouiyine University in Fes, is the first French scholar to hold this position. The Arabic-speaking Pope is, according to some historians, the one behind the Crusades' plan.
The Al Quaraouiyine (...)
Animal rescue association Comme Chiens et Chats lodged a complaint against a man who burnt 40 stray cats in Safi. Authorities in the city accepted the complaint in an unprecedented move.
In an unprecedented move, prosecution at the Safi court of (...)
The latest military operation carried by rebel commander Khalifa Haftar in Tripoli towers above the Libyan political scene. Backed by the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, Haftar is trying take control over the Libyan capital which is (...)
The leader of Algeria's Justice and Development Front party has announced that the current Speaker of the country's Council of the Nation, the parliament's upper chamber, could not run the country if President Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigns. To him, (...)
After David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the state of Israel, the Soviet Union was quick to recognize the entity as a new nation. This decision influenced communist parties in the Arab world, including (...)