Café Clock has hands ticking rhythms to multiplying metronomes. The Clock Crew are behind the mechanics and after restoring the 250 year old courtyard house they have brought to Fez a cultural zone that we are all desperate to set our watches to. Musicians, thinkers, performers, lovers, restorers, teachers, travellers national international are walking...
Clock Kitchen is here to help you gain access to and intensify your sensory experience of Morocco! From recipe to souk, through preparation to plate, Clock Kitchen, located in the gastronomic capital of Fez, will chaperone you every step of the way. This special...
Workshops Cooking School Learn to cook traditional Moroccan food in the heart of the medina with Clock Kitchen. Fez’s first dedicated cooking school. Calligraphy Discover the sacred art of calligraphy with master Mohamed Charkaoui. Fez Download Let us introduce you to Moroccan culture, customs...
Patti Smith is a singer, writer and artist who became a highly influential figure in the New York City punk rock scene. After working on a factory assembly line,...
Step Afrika! will be turning up the heat this summer with their friends in Morocco! And there is still space to join this tour made specifically for Step Afrika!...
Five young artists from Morocco to India are winners of 6th annual Abraaj Group Art Prize. Daily Star he Abraaj Group Art Prize, now in its sixth year, will fund...
By Youssef El Kaidi Morocco World News Fez, June 6, 2013 After gaining maturity and worldwide fame over the past editions, the Festival of World Sacred Music of Fez...
Scene from the film “Tinghir-Jerusalem: Echoes from the Mellah” MACC (Washington, DC, June 4, 2013) — When people think of Morocco and its culture, the first things that...
By Sarah Introna Morocco World News New Jersey, May 29, 2013 The National Theater Mohammed V will perform in the United States for the first time in Washington D.C....
By Layla Dahamou Morocco World News Taroudant, May 29, 2013 Morocco is also known for its sweet pastry. Some are really traditional while others have a modem touch because...
Uzbekistan’s Yuldusz Turdevia Ensemble performed at the 2012 Fes Festival in Morocco. Get ready for flamenco guitar, social consciousness and Sufi mystics. The world’s most spiritual music fest kicks...
Moroccan film ”Le Temps du Terrorisme” debuted May 16, 10 years after Casablanca suicide attacks. Hassan Benmehdi *”Morocco is a country which is essentially based on tolerance &...
The 12th edition of the week-long Mawazine festival ended on Saturday (June 1st). A record number of 2.5 million spectators of all generations attended this year’s event, organisers said....
From a dusty desert outpost, Marrakech has grown into a city that seems to exist in several epochs and several continents at once. You can haggle with stallholders in...
Mount Zalagh looms high over Fez, looking down on the crowded city and its narrow, winding alleys. A world away from the hustle and bustle of one of the...
Historical view: A new map of Pangea, the super continent from 300 million years ago, shows where modern day countries would have been located in the ancient land mass....
Kasbah du Toubkal — High in the Atlas, the Kasbah is reached only by foot or mule. Forbes Forbes Magazine, Ann Abel, Contributor (May 28, 2013) — “Dreams are only...
Moroccan participant “Mohammed Rifi” from “Hussein Al-Jasmi” team won the X Factor competition after reaching the final stage alongside “Ibrahim Abdul Atheem” from “Al-Jasmi” team and “Adham Nabulsi” from...
By Larbi Arbaoui Morocco World News Taroudant, May 27, 2013 Travelers all over the world have generally three questions in mind before they land in their destination. Where to...
Singer Rihanna performs during concert at Mawazine Festival in Rabat, Morocco, Friday May 24. She began with Morocco’s biggest music festival to start European leg of her Diamonds World Tour. A.Bounhar/AP...
From top left: Habiba Msika, Zohra El Fassia, Leila Mourad, Raymonde Abecassis, Line Monty. *They scorched the stages of Algeria and Tunis, in Casablanca and Baghdad, and also...
Oum – Moroccan singer, writer, composer. Patriotic Vanguard, Sierra Leone’s News Portal (May 19, 2013) — Oum is the first word of moroccan first name Oum El Ghaït,...
MarocPress/MAP (Rabat, Morocco, May 14, 2013) — King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful, decided to personally finance the reconstruction of the Taroudant Grand Mosque which was partially...
King Mohammed VI reviews ambitious Morocco project, 1st of two phases to be completed in 2020, cover 3,000 hectares & generate 500 megawatts. Saudi ACWA Power leads construction of the plant,...
Morocco’s Rose Festival starts this weekend, in the town of El Kelaa M’Gouna, nestled high in the Atlas Mountains in the Valley of the Roses. Credit H.Zell / Wikimedia...
Carole Castiel, president, Cape Verde Jewish Heritage Project, Praia mayor Ulisses Correia Silva, Lisbon Grand Rabbi Eliezer Schai di Martino inaugurate Jewish gravesite **While the Jewish-Moroccan community has...
By Lara Brunt, for CNN May 8, 2013 — Updated 0945 GMT (1745 HKT) Writers, rock stars and eccentrics flocked to Tangier’s cafés in the first half of the...
“The warmth that we find in Moroccan houses—it’s something that we don’t find in any other culture.” —Samy Ymar, with Magen David Sephardic Congregation. Morocco on the Move...
Caftan, one of the most prestigious events in the traditional Moroccan Haute Couture calendar, takes place in Marrakech and requires months of meticulous preparations from designers. Reuters **The...
The world renowned superstar Rihanna – first celebrity on the social networking site Facebook with more than 62.5 million fans – will be performing for the opening of...
Having spent roughly a decade planning for high-speed rail service, Morocco’s plans for the project have gathered increasing steam in recent months following the signing of five key technical...
I have this urge to travel to Morocco if nothing for the sheer desire to re-enact Casablanca as Ilsa Lund, played by Ingrid Bergman. (Who wants to come along...
HBO’s Game of Thrones inspires travel to Morocco EuroNews, CANOE (April 22, 2013) — Hotel bookings in the desert town of Ouarzazate, Morocco have experienced a 100% spike since...
A student looks at a display at the Judaism Museum in Casblanca on Jan. 28, 2011. (photo by ABDELHAK SENNA/AFP/Getty Images) Al Monitor, by Meryem Saadi, from TelQuel (April...
The first semifinal match of the African U-17 Championship – between Morocco and Ivory Coast — will be played on 23 April. Nigeria and Tunisia face each other in the...
Renewable Energy Drive Gains Pace in Morocco Ambitious plans to increase renewables in Morocco’s energy mix have taken another step closer to completion, following the announcement that Africa’s second-largest...
By Keith Bowers· April 17th, 2013 ·This year’s International Butterfly Show at Krohn Conservatory brings in an Arab North African twist and creates a beautiful spectacle in the process. ...
A Hebrew lesson in Fez, Morocco. Courtesy of the Museum of Moroccan Judaism. Le Soir Echos, by Dalila Saadou (Casablanca, Morocco, April 15, 2013) — The Museum of Moroccan...
Ambitious plans to increase renewables in Morocco’s energy mix have taken another step closer to completion, following the announcement that Africa’s second-largest wind farm is to be built in...
The doomed camel. A camel presented to French president François Hollande as a gift in Mali has been eaten by locals. In what appears to have been a...
Churchill & Roosevelt enjoy a break from their deliberations to spend a few days in Marrakesh. Winston Churchill believed that “Marrakesh is simply the nicest place on Earth to...
“On the Edge,” Moroccan director Leila Kilani’s first feature, was inspired by true events. BBC BBC News (London, England, April 10, 2013) — Women film-makers from Morocco, Tunisia...
In Morocco a meal is not simply a meal: “It’s better.” – Sarah Dajani, Huffington Post Sarah Dajani, Writer and photographer, devourblog.com and windowdining.com Huffington Post, by Sarah...
Morocco World News The 16th edition of the festival of Gnaoua and the music of the world will be held from 20 to June 23 in Essaouira under the...
Morocco World News Fez, April 5, 2013 When writing about the old Medina of Fez, which is part of the historic city of Fez in the Kingdom of Morocco,...
Scientists show a nomad how to assemble a “waterpod” near the village of M’hamid El Ghizlane, southeast of Zagora, on March 16, 2013. AFP PHOTO/FADEL SENNA Omar Razzouki gazes...
Morocco World News Maakouda is a delicious potato fritters prepared by nearly all Moroccan families. It is a crispy and spicy disc shape fritters made of mashed potatoes mixed...
Morocco World News Fez, March 27, 2013 The music festival of Joujouka is to be held from 14th to 16th June, 2013. Since its first edition in 2008, the...
**According to a new report on global tourism, the top three most welcoming countries for foreigners are: Iceland, New Zealand and Morocco.**— Buried several hundred pages into a new World...
The 12th annual Meknes International Animated Film Festival (FICAM) in Morocco, showcases more than 50 animated short and long films, with workshops, conferences & exhibition? Middle East Online, by Saad...
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI was represented at the inauguration of Pope Francis today at the Vatican in Rome by Morocco head of government, Abdelilah Benkirane. Lemag.ma (Rome, Italy,...
