A British charity has launched a crowdfunding campaign to organize the first LGBTQ Muslim festival in the United Kingdom. The event expected to take place in 2020, is to celebrate diversity, the Independent reports. Imaan, Europe's biggest charity supporting LGBTQI Muslims and the one behind the idea indicates that «LGBT+ Muslims find themselves isolated, without community and frequently facing homophobic, biphobic, transphobic and Islamaphobic abuse». «Often LGBTQI Muslims
In a manifesto published Tuesday, a group of Dutch-Moroccans is calling the Dutch government to help them end compulsory dual nationality. The initiative regarded as a «significant political move» is related to a long and complicated procedure.
Five jihadists of Moroccan origin stripped of their Dutch citizenship will no longer be considered persona non grata in the Netherlands, Dutch newspaper AD reports. Quoting NOS, the same source reveals that these fighters are Moroccan nationals who joined terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq. One of them is Driss Daouayry who died in Syria in 2015. The other four are Azzedine Benaissa, Benyamine Fadlaoui, Mounir El Kharbachi and Ridouane Öz. The then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
The latest mystery novel of Moroccan-American novelist and professor Laila Lalami «The Other Americans» is one of the ten titles nominated for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, one of four annual National Book Awards held in the United States. According to Los Angeles Times, Lalami’s novel about the mysterious death of a Moroccan-American restaurant owner will be competing with other books this year. The list includes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead,
While Marrakech is being on the list of the cities affected by the collapse of British travel firm Thomas Cook, some celebrities are still enjoying their stay in the Red City. Spotted last week in the Jemaa El Fna square, former United States president Bill Clinton was seen again in Marrakech, sipping tea with his wife Hilary, a former presidential candidate. The couple were sitting next to a modest and traditional table, being offered Moroccan tea. The photo was taken after it was reported,
Published annually by the Harvard Business School, the «Social Progress Index» ranks 149 countries according to the progress they have made in terms of social security and access to basic human needs. Morocco falls behind in the ranking, mainly because of the low quality of its higher education.
British tour operator Thomas Cook announced its collapse, Monday, putting an end to its worldwide operations. The decision affects its customers in Morocco and impacts its big ambitions for the Kingdom.
Moroccan artist Anas Bawss, the founder of «Pozitiv S’cool of Hip Hop» in Casablanca, has been named «ambassador of Moroccan hip-hop in the United States», a press release sent Monday to Yabiladi reports. The Positive school is a program created in 2016 by Anas Bawss to teach hip-hop with the help of the Ali Zaoua Foundation. The school is meant to help several young people from working-class neighborhoods in Casablanca to work on themselves,
Crown Princess Mary of Denmark is expected to visit Morocco next month to attend a Youth Innovation Summit, Royal Central wrote on Sunday. Quoting the Youth Innovation Summit’s official website, the same source reports that the Crown Princess will fly to the North African Kingdom for the 3rd and 4th of October for the opening of the Youth Dialogue Festival at the end of the aforementioned summit. During this summit «the youg talents will present their innovations to the public,
Photos of former United States President Bill Clinton in Morocco went viral on social media. In a series of pictures taken by fans and passersby in Marrakech, Clinton was seen visiting the Jemaa el-Fnaa square and roaming the Samarine market narrow streets. Clinton was spotted taking a picture with a snake, visiting arts and crafts shops and surrounded by a huge crowd of fans. The 42nd president of the United States was accompanied by security agents when visiting the
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