Casablanca | Tags |

Wednesday February 8, 2012

Tags (52) : Casablanca

Casablanca well positioned to become an international financial centre – FDI Magazine

Yacout Info - MAP | 2012-01-23 | Economy

With a slew of new projects intended to attract foreign investors, Casablanca is well positioned to achieve its aim of becoming an international financial centre, the UK FDI magazine writes in its latest issue. It adds that the Casablanca Stock Exchange is north Africa’s largest stock exchange, and...

Casablanca

Moroccan Terror Victims Association founded in Casablanca

Yacout Info | 2011-11-04 | News

The Moroccan Terror Victims Association was founded, on Thursday in Casablanca, bringing together civil society actors and victims of terrorist attacks that hit the country since May 16, 2003. The association aims to support and assist victims and their families, disseminate all information about...

Casablanca, Morocco, Terror victims Association

David Bloch Gallery Casablanca-the programme for November and December 2011

Yacout Info | 2011-11-03 | Culture

Group exhibition « Hall of Fame part » David Bloch and Driss Lahlou have the honor to present a big group exhibition from the 3rd of November till the 12th of December 2011. A private view will take place on Thursday the 3rd of November from 7 p.m. The gallery maintains its art trend...

Casablanca, David Bloch Gallery, Jonas "Sun 7" Bournat, Yassine "Yaze" Mekhnache

North Africa’s largest mall SET for December opening

Yacout Info | 2011-10-27 | News

Casablanca’s Morocco Mall, the largest shopping mall in North Africa and the Middle East, will open its doors in early December. The ten-hectare development along the Casablanca Corniche was originally intended to open this month, but has been pushed back by six weeks to open December 5. Spanning...

Casablanca, Corniche, Dior, Ferragamo, Fnac, Gap, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Morocco Mall, Ralph Lauren, Zegna

Expertise and ambition meet in Casablanca

Yacout Info | 2011-10-26 | Yacoupedia

On a warm, still evening, a group of young and successful business school alumni sit in heated debate at a table in Rick’s Café – a recreation of the saloon bar from the 1942 film Casablanca that attracts tourists and expats alike. The five graduates from the Ecole Supérieure du Commerce et des...

AACSB, Casablanca, Ceibs Shangai, Edhec, Esca, Grenoble Graduate School of Business, Morocco Mall, Thami Ghorfi, Thierry Grange

The Seven Deadly Sins exhibition by the artist Selfati at the l'Atelier 21 Art Gallery, Casablanca.

Yacout Info | 2011-10-17 | News

The artist Ilias Selfati exhibits the gallery Atelier 21, from 18 October to 2 December 2011, with a project called "the seven deadly sins." This is a series of drawings corresponding to each of the seven deadly sins There are seven large paintings, entitled Pride, Lust, Avarice,...

Aetelier 21, Casablanca, Ecole des Beaux Artes Tetouan, Engraving, Ilias Sefati, Tangier.

Morocco breaks up terrorist cell -Police Department

Yacout Info | 2011-10-02 | News

Morocco's security forces have broken up a five-member terrorist cell that used to operate in the cities of Salé (near Rabat) and Casablanca, National Police Department said on Saturday in a statement. The statement added that the dismantled cell includes a member linked to the former emir...

Al Qaeda, Argana, Ayman Ai-Zawahiri, Casablanca, Marrakech, Salé, Somalia, Syria, Terrorist cell, Turkey, Yeman

HM the King, president Sarkozy and HRH Prince Megren Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud launch building works of Tangier-Casablanca high-speed link

Yacout Info | 2011-09-29 | News

HM King Mohammed VI, accompanied by HRH Prince Moulay Rachid, and the French president Nicolas Sarkozy, and HRH Prince Megren Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud launched, on Thursday at the Tangier-Ville rail station, the building works of a high-speed link that will link Tangier to Casablanca, worth 20 billion...

Casablanca, HRH Prince Megren Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, King Mohammed VI, President Sarkozy, Tangier, TGV

Thousands in Morocco pro-democracy protests

Yacout Info | 2011-09-26 | News

Thousands of protesters turned out in Casablanca on Sunday to demand deep political reform, unappeased by a recently-agreed package limiting the powers of King Mohammed VI Demonstrators responding to a call from the February 20 Movement filled the city's Al-Harti boulevard, with a crowd...

Al Harti Boulevard, Casablanca, corruption, Marrakech, Morocco, Mouad Al-Haqed, prodemocracy, social justice, Tangiers

The Festival of Languages at Casablanca

Yacout Info | 2011-09-19 | News

The city of Casablanca is hosting the third edition of the Festival of Languages on September 24 and that at the Goethe Institute. Initiated in 2009 by the Cervantes Institute, the French Institute, British Council, Italian Cultural Association Dante Alighieri, the Italian Institute of...

British Council, Casablanca, ch institute, Festival of languages, Fre

UN independent expert urges Morocco to promote cultural rights and diversity

Yacout Info | 2011-09-17 | News

The United Nations independent expert on cultural rights today urged Morocco to further promote cultural rights and diversity in the country by expanding current initiatives to all communities, including minorities. "The exemplary coexistence of different cultures, together with mutual...

Casablanca, Cultural Rights, Farida Shaheed, Khemisset, Marrakech, Morocco, Rabat, UN

Naturex Foundation Helps Moroccan Schoolchildren

Yacout Info | 2011-09-15 | News

The primary school Mata Nouaceur in Casablanca, Morocco, welcomed members of EMA (Enfance Maghreb Avenir , including the Naturex Foundation, on a tour of the building, showcasing the early completed stages of renovation funded by the guests. Jacques Dikansky, president of the Naturex Foundation,...

Casablanca, EMA, Jacques Dikanskt, Mata Nouaceur, Morocco, Naturex

The second congress of the Supreme Courts of the Arab countries 17-18 September in Casablanca

Yacout Info | 2011-09-13 | News

The Higher Judicial Council is being held 17 -18 September in Casablanca on the occasion of second congress of the Supreme Courts of the Arab countries. Held under the patronage of HM King Mohammed VI, this conference will bring together representatives of 20 Arab countries, is part of the...

Arab Supreme Courts, Casablanca, Congress, Judicial Council

Installation of the new U.S. Consul General in Casablanca

Yacout Info | 2011-09-10 | News

The American ambassador in Rabat, Samuel Kaplan, performed the installation of Brian Shukan, new Consul General of the United States on Friday night in Casablanca, the economic capital of the Kingdom. Mr. Kaplan recalled on this occasion that the ceremony on the eve of the 10th anniversary...

Brian Shukan, Casablanca, Consul General, Morooco, Sam Kaplan

Fire in Casablanca: 56 shops ravaged

Yacout Info | 2011-09-04 | News

Fifty-six businesses were destroyed due to a fire that broke out Saturday night in the souk in Casablanca Hay El Massira (Prefecture Moulay Rachid), causing extensive damage The fire started around 20h in shops located in a slum, said a source from local authorities, without specifying the...

Casablanca, fire 56 shops, Hay El Massira

Casablanca’s Art Boom

Yacout Info | 2011-09-04 | Culture

With the opening of Le Studio des Arts Vivants (the living arts studio), the first multi-discipline art space in Morocco, Casablanca is taking its place at the centre of the country’s contemporary art scene. Jump in a red taxi and zip through Caza, as the locals call it, and Le Studio des...

Alec Monopoly, Casablanca, Fathia Zemmouri, Fihr Kettani, La gelerie 38, Le Studi des Arts Vivants

U.S. Consul General in Casablanca hails climate of stability, peace in Morocco

Yacout Info | 2011-09-03 | News

Consul General of the United States of America in Casablanca Brian Shukan on Friday in Marrakech applauded the climate of stability and peace prevailing in Morocco, under the leadership of HM King Mohammed VI. In a statement to MAP news agency on the sidelines of a visit to Marrakech,...

Brian Shukan, Casablanca, Consul General, US

Emirates still ambitious

Yacout Info | 2011-08-20 | News

At a time when most airlines have major deficits , Emirates makes a many of them jealous. Present in Morocco since 2002, the company sees the Gulf thinking big. "In February, we have acquired a new Boeing 777 fleet and to strengthen our response to the growing demand of the Moroccan...

Casablanca, Dubai, Emirates, Khaled Al Haddad

AttijariWafa sees further 15 pc profit rise by end 2011

Yacout Info | 2011-08-16 | News

Morocco's biggest lender, AttijariWafa Bank (ATW.CS ), expects its net profit to rise by a further 15 percent by the end of the year after seeing a similar rise in the first half of 2011, its CEO said on Monday. The plan is to have the same performance in the second half," CEO...

Attiariwafabank, Casablanca, Mohamed Kettani

The 11th edition of the national festival of spiritual chants 18 and August 19 in Casablanca

Yacout Info | 2011-07-30 | News

The Free Trade Union of Moroccan musicians will hold 18 and August 19 in Casablanca, the 11th edition of the national festival of spiritual. The festival, which will be organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs, aims to pave the way to the spiritual songs...

Casablanca, Free Trade Union of Moroccan musicians, Religious chants

ATOM

Editorial

Democracy and the Market: the Fratricidal War!

Democracy and the Market: the Fratricidal War!

In our last editorial, we wrote: "Today the picture is different as we await a global crisis that is both severe, long-lasting and whose end is...

Today
Hafid Marbou exhibits at Gallery Sous Sol - Agadir (to 2012-02-28)
National Salon for Young Contemporary Talent (to 2012-02-12)
Wednesday February 29
Arts in Marrakech (AIM) Biennale (to 2012-03-04)

Subscribe for our Newsletter

BBC News - Home

The latest stories from the Home section of the BBC News web site.

NHS directors seek Lords backing

Peers are urged to support a move to let hospitals do more private sector work as plans to overhau...

2012-02-08 05:06
Argentina to go to UN on islands

Argentina will make a formal complaint to the UN about British "militarisation" around the dispute...

2012-02-08 01:02

HM The King Appoints Bouchaib Rmail Director General Of National Police

Moroccan-American relations, ‘strong and longstanding’- senior US official

Morocco develops solidarity programme in anticipation of cold snap

1st "National Tibu School Tour" in 11 Moroccan Cities

Moroccan Minister: scientific field is among priorities of cooperation with Turkey

Morocco's Tourist Attractions Presented at the Brussels Holiday Show