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Police in Morocco. Reuters

Morocco Says it Thwarted Plot Similar to May 16, 2003 Attacks

by Latifa Al-Arosni | May 14, 2016 | Middle East

Rabat-Morocco’s authorities have thwarted a “dangerous” terrorist plot similar to the May 16 events that Casablanca witnessed in 2003. The Interior Ministry announced on Friday the arrest of a Chadian national affiliated with ISIS and unraveled a...

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Still from Rock the Casbah (Laïla Marrakchi, 2013)

Rock the Casbah review: Dysfunction meets humor at a Moroccan elite family funeral

by Amy Assad | Sep 18, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Laïla Marrakchi’s Rock the Casbah opens with a narration from the film’s family patriarch, Hassan Ben Amor, played by screen legend Omar Sharif (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago). Dressed in white and with a mischievous grin, the successful...

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Hard drug users take part in a group session as part of a program that they follow to fight their addiction on September 26, 2013 at the Hasnouna clinic in the Moroccan city of Tangiers (AFP PHOTO /FADEL SENNA)

Opinion: Tangiers, the Home of Novelists and the Unwanted

by Samir Atallah | Nov 11, 2013 | Opinion

The city of Tangiers was built on its writers and its port. I am almost tempted to say that it was also built on poverty, cheap commodities and the Bohemian life of its expatriate population. One of the early visitors of the city in the modern era was Alexandre Dumas...