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.
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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
On a tous une image de pays chaud pour le Maroc, en oubliant qu’en dehors des déserts et des côtes, c’est avant tout un pays de montagnes… et donc un pays froid ! Chaque année apporte ses images de villages sous la neige.
Dressing while on holiday in Morocco: practicality, comfort and decency towards Moroccans. Getting dressed while living in Morocco: comfort, decency and neatness
The main public holidays in Morocco, with the date of the next Muslim holiday, converted from the Muslim to the Gregorian calendar
A snapshot of the daily life of a primary school teacher in a mountain village: teaching, extra-curricular activities and work with adults, such as literacy programmes and community organisations, etc.
One morning during Ramadan in Casablanca, the Hassan II mosque is hidden in the mist, but can be heard throughout the city, waking it up with the call to prayer.
Published on 20 August 2007, this newsletter existed even before the blog, which began a few days later. It talks about open sky, and marvels at this great milestone!
An album of photos of the desert, the fragile handwriting of the wind on the sand, the breath in the desert, the ochre, the white, the burnt.
If you are a teacher yourself, organise an exchange with one of your classes. Pen-pals, or even a long-term mentoring arrangement, can be a hugely enriching experience for both sides.
The first cannon shot was fired from the Taourirt kasbah, to help the faithful keep to the Ramadan fasting timetable.
It’s hard to avoid the crowds when you visit Majorelle, but these two kittens aren’t paying any attention to them!
Moroccan-style time management, transformation of the date moussem, internal rivalries? It was impossible to know in time when it would take place.
You’ve made your budget to come to Morocco, but how are you going to spend your money? And how can you get – or sell – dirhams?
Dates change, or are only known very late… how can an international exhibition be organised in this way? Another “standardised” moussem
