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The Linguistic Situation in Morocco: Chaos or Richness?
Casablanca- The strategic location of Morocco has meant that throughout history it has been open to a variety of linguistic influences including Greeks, Phoenicians, Arabs and Western Europeans. This...
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Urgent solutions for urgent needs in the Muslim World
Rabat Preserving and strengthening identity The impact of the globalization process, which has brought unprecedented changes in societies and accelerated the pace of scientific and technological...
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The Role of ICT in the Tourism Industry
Ifran, Morocco - Responsible for 10% of the global gross domestic product (GDP) and for 8.7% of the world’s jobs, tourism is today considered an important economic booster and the world’s largest...
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Teaching-Learning Culture: between Past and Present (Part 1)
By Dr. Azize Kour - Sale Culture teaching has been known by different names in various places (Byram,1994,cited in Thai TESOL Bulletin, vol 11 N°1 Feb 1998). ‘Landeskunde’, in German literally means...
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Cultural Clash: The Islam-West Conflict (Part I)
By Ezzoubeir Jabrane Casablanca- Between the West and Islam there has been a history of tension and enmity that dates back to the emergence of the first Arab, Muslim political state under the...
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The Five Habits of Highly Effective Teachers
By Abdelouahed Oulgout Tinejdad, Morocco - Growing professionally as a highly effective teacher is not that easy. It is a matter of struggle, patience, and commitment to improve one’s potentials and...
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Gender inequality and the recent reforms of Moudawana in Morocco
Fez - After many years of struggle by women’s organizations, the situation of women in Morocco has improved, thanks to the adoption of several reforms. During the last two decades, Moroccan women have...
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Teacher of the Future: Challenges of Self-Development and Stakes in Academic...
Rabat - Undoubtedly, the teacher plays a fundamental and central role in the life of the child and in the future of the Ummah [community] in general. The teacher provides him or her with science,...
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The Tripolitan War through the 2011-U.S. Intervention in Libya
By Othman Ouaarab Casablanca - As the end of the eighteenth century approached, the region of North Africa, known as the Barbary States at that time, was undergoing many changes. The key word that is...
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The Future of English in Multilingual Morocco
Fez- Recently, relatively subtle or, rather, unpublicized debate has arisen among educators and politicians over the importance of English as a global language in the Moroccan linguistic market. Some...
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The Moroccan Linguistic Situation
Rabat - The linguistic situation in Morocco is characterized by complexity. The presence of different local and foreign languages leaves room for diversity and creates many sociolinguistic issues. The...
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Crossing Borders in Diwan Sidi Abderahman Almejdoub: A Theatre Within a Theatre
By Abdeladim Hinda Kenitra - Quiet hamlets in the Arif mountain valleys, spacious pastures on the slopes, lakes and dams here and there upheld in the chalice of the hills, fields green or yellow...
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Ta’ziya Theatre from a Constructive Approach
Rabat - Ta’ziya is a performing tradition out of many that were celebrated in the East before the appropriation of the Western model. Ta’ziya is a formulaic space resurrecting the historical memory of...
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The First People
Kenitra - “Why should we be so arrogant as to assume that we're the first homo-sapiens to walk the earth?” (J.J. Abrams et al., 2010) No one remembers one’s moment of birth and neither does humanity....
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Teachers’ Training in Morocco: The Case of English Language Teachers
Fez - Moroccan English language teachers undergo a lengthy process of training before actually becoming teachers. Nearly a majority of these trainings take place in governmental institutions like...
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The Islam-bashing season is officially open in the West
Rabat – There is no shadow of doubt hat the terrible acts of terrorism of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7, 2015 are condemnable, by any cultural or religious standards of any human civilization....
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“The Bus Runs From Me”: Scapegoating the Other in Moroccan Culture
El Jadida, Morocco - The social representation of the other in the Moroccan popular culture of Islam is mainly grounded in the culturally embedded conception of possession popularized by a maraboutic...
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The Spectrum of Language Choice for Moroccan Education
Rabat - Two or three years ago, a colleague with whom I was hardly acquainted called and asked me to join what he referred to as an elite group of Moroccan Anglophone intellectuals and activists...
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Ashura and the Ritual Emancipation of Women in Morocco
El Jadida - Anthropologically speaking, the popular Islamic ritual of Ashura has been approached as a pagan survival in Morocco. There is a traditional thesis on Ashura that it is an Islamic ceremony...
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Cultural Stereotypes about Female Sexual Threat in Morocco
El Jadida - Generally, Moroccan women are not invested with continual cultural authority like men. In popular culture, they are stereotypically considered as inferior, capricious and untrustworthy....
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