Visiting Morocco during Ramadan: advantages and disadvantages. Your stay will be different, but just as enjoyable as the rest of the year.
The "tamarisk root" you see in the desert is not a tamarisk root, but a parasitic plant of the tamarisk root, the cistanche, which is very pretty with its yellow flowers.
The Issawiyya, a large Muslim brotherhood, has a strong presence on the web, "tradition and modernity".
Information for the 2009 Rose Moussem: in this blog post The date of the is…
Two women in the desert, following the Tuaregs and their caravans, is the story told in ‘Le sel du désert’ (The Salt of the Desert) by Odette du Puigaudeau and Marion Senones.
Ousmane Dodo, doctor of the desert, a beautiful television report on the life of a Tuareg doctor in Niger and that of his patients.
In Morocco, Amazigh culture is alive and well, and not confined to museums. Practised on a daily basis, it is being modernised both technically and in its expressions, which improves its potential for survival.
In Agouim, on the road between Marrakesh and Ouarzazate, a women's cooperative produces top-quality Berber rugs and Fez stitch embroidery, which you can discover here before buying them locally on your next trip to Morocco.
Three languages are officially spoken in Morocco: Arabic, French and Berber. There is also Darija. A few words to get you started...
Ashura is festive in Morocco, with rites common to the whole country, such as the drumming and water games of Zem-Zem, and rituals specific to one village or another, such as the Ashura of the Jews of Goulmima
The tradition is the negotiation of the fine, which will eventually be paid directly to the police officer for a small fee. Modernity is the new highway code and the radar, not yet in operation.
The Paris-Dakar raid is an event in Morocco, but a destructive one. It passes through the desert with no opportunity to enjoy it, with a catastrophic ecological impact.
Corruption in Morocco, an endemic evil to fight. And a practice to be avoided, when one does not know how.
Solution to our game about Arabic words translated into English. Sometimes they even come from further afield, from China, with the caravans, the silk route and the spice route.
We are all Arabic speakers, without knowing it. There are many Arabic words that have found their way into the English language, some of them surprising. Can you recognise them all?
Contents: the Agouim women's cooperative, Ryanair's difficulties in Morocco and the Todra floods
