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FC Barcelona and Real Madrid to play a friendly game in the holy city of Mecca

24/02/2013
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FC Barcelona and Real Madrid to play a friendly game in the holy city of Mecca

According to the Spanish sports newspaper Marca, Spain’s emblematic teams, FC Barcelona and Real Madrid are set to play a friendly game in Saudi Arabia’s Mecca city, the holy city of Islam, which hosts the Kaaba. This game, whose date has not been set yet, will part of the opening ceremony of the high...

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Moroccan Cinema and Cultural Consumption

24/02/2013
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Moroccan Cinema and Cultural Consumption

Morocco World News “Art does not reproduce what is visible; it makes things visible.” Paul Klee In his outstanding article, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, the German cultural critic Walter Benjamin made an anatomy of the essence of artistic works and revealed how they lose their aura and originality...

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Morocco’s Moulay Ismail Mausoleum among world’s “Top 10 Overlooked Stunning Buildings”

19/02/2013
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Morocco’s Moulay Ismail Mausoleum among world’s “Top 10 Overlooked Stunning Buildings”

Morocco World News After establishing the list of the world’s “Top Ten Best Street Food Cities,” the editorial team of VirtualTourist, put together a list of the world’s “Top 10 Overlooked Stunning Buildings.” The travel website ranked the Meknes’ Moulay Ismail Mausoleum as the world’s 7th overlooked and stunning buildings. The shrine of Moulay...

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Moroccan football team keeps its 74th place in new FIFA’s ranking

15/02/2013
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Moroccan football team keeps its 74th place in new FIFA’s ranking

Rabat, February 14, 2013 (MAP) The Moroccan football team has kept its 74th place in the new ranking of the International Federation of Football (FIFA), released Thursday and which still dominated by Spain ahead of Germany and Argentina. The February FIFA- World Ranking is dominated by the CAF Africa Cup of Nations in South...

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Morocco-Russia sign new fisheries agreement

15/02/2013
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Morocco-Russia sign new fisheries agreement

Agadir, February 14, 2013 (MAP) Morocco and Russia signed, Thursday in Agadir, a new fisheries cooperation agreement for a period of four years, the sixth of its kind since 1992. The agreement was signed by Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Aziz Akhannouch and representative of the Russian Federal Agency for Fisheries, Constantine Dikin, on...

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Good Bye Morocco: A new film on contemporary Morocco

14/02/2013
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Good Bye Morocco: A new film on contemporary Morocco

Morocco World News After an absence of five years, the director of Le Harem de Madame Osmane (2000), Viva Laldjérie  (2004), and Délice Paloma (2007), the Franco-Algerian film director, Nadir Moknèche, returns with a feature film under the title Good Bye Morocco produced by Bertrand Gore and Nathalie Mesuret and released in French cinemas on...

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