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Morocco: New segments drive real estate price rise

Yacout Info | 10/31/2011 | Economy
Real estate prices witnessed significant year-on-year (y-o-y) increases in the first two quarters of 2011, and several large real estate projects are SET to bring additional capacity online by the end of next year, while strong demand continues to drive social housing development. According to...
Al Maghrib, Anfa Place.Inveravante, Bab Al Bahar, Cap Tingis, Fez, Kenitra, Morocco, new segments, real estate, Tangier

Renovated Galleries of Islamic Art Celebrate Beauty and Diversity.

Yacout Info | 10/28/2011 | Culture
For a decade, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has been planning for the November 1 opening of its renovated and expanded galleries of Islamic art, harnessing the talents of curators, conservators and scientists to showcase masterworks whose themes and styles link the artistic traditions of...
Fez, Galleries of the Arab Lands, Islamic Art, Maryam Ekhtiar, Metroploitan Museum, Morocco

History’s Hands

Yacout Info | 10/20/2011 | Yacoupedia
When the Metropolitan Museum of Art makes a big curatorial decision, it tends to do so with the kind of grave deliberation that goes into a papal bull. Gut feeling is not a prized consideration. But in the spring of 2009, in a dust-covered basement workshop in Fez, Morocco, a young curator in the...
Adil Naji, Fez, Metropolitan Mueseum of Art, Nadia Erzini, Navina Haidar, New York Times, Randy Kennedy

Exhibition: " Fez Trilogy 1916-1917," the beauty of Fez in historical photographs

Yacout Info | 09/27/2011 | News
The Gallery of the French Institute in Fez is holding 23 September - 3 October, an exhibition that reflects the beauty of the spiritual capital of the kingdom Fez, a historical record called "Fez Triology 1916-1917."  These are the albums of photographs taken by Commander Larribe, entitled...
Fez, Institut de france, Trilogy

Ceremony in Rabat in tribute to the artist Ahmed Tayeb Laalej

Yacout Info | 08/23/2011 | News
The Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS) held in Rabat on Monday evening a ceremony in honor of the artist Ahmed Tayeb Laalej in recognition of this emblematic figure of Moroccan theater.  The ceremony was graced by the presence of a host of artists and intellectuals who have highlighted...
Ahmed Alaoui, Ahmed Tayeb Laalej, Fez, Khalid Naciri, Nabil Benabdellah, PPS

One Thousand And One Nights: Folk tales from the barricades

Yacout Info | 08/07/2011 | Culture
It has taken rare courage for a pan-Arab cast to continue to rehearse One Thousand And One Nights against the backdrop of the recent uprisings. Mark Fisher talks to them at rehearsals in Morocco   No sooner has the plane touched down in Fes than the text messages start to arrive. News has just...
1001 nights, Fez, Morocco, Tim Supple

The artist Al Harah Toufa exhibits her paintings in Fez

Yacout Info | 07/30/2011 | News
The Moroccan artist Al Harah Toufa presented Thursday at Fez, a dozen paintings of all sizes, to mark the 12th anniversary of the accession of King Mohammed VI to the throne of his glorious ancestors.   Al Harah Toufa, nicknamed the "Pearl" of the South, has offered to the public in...
Al Hara Touf, exhibition, Fez, Mechouar, Mohamed Rharrabi, Sahriwi women

Notes from Europe: Fez a must-visit Moroccan destination

Yacout Info | 07/23/2011 | Tourism
The name might conjure images of a fez hat -- a red hat in the shape of a short cylinder with a tassel, a popular fashion attribute of the Ottomans in the 19th century. Plenty of fez hats can be found in the city, either worn or being sold, but there is much more to the second-largest Moroccan...
Fes el Bali, Fez, fundukl-yihud, Jews, mellah

Around 160,000 people take to the streets in Morocco in support of the Constitution

Yacout Info | 07/19/2011 | News
Around 160,000 people demonstrated, on Sunday in several Moroccan cities, to show support for the new constitution adopted by a referendum on July 1, according to a final count by local sources.  The number of the demonstrators reached 20,000 in Casablanca, 15,000 in Rabat, 12,000 in Tangier,...
Azilal, Casablanca, Fez, Pro Government demos, Rabat, Sunday, Tangier, Taroudant, Tetouan, Tinghir

Play it again, faster

Yacout Info | 06/21/2011 | Yacoupedia
Steve McKenna rides a railway in the midst of a renaissance, ticking off romantic destinations as he goes. I'd half expected Tangier's railway station to resemble an old-fashioned Indian terminus: air rife with spicy smells, frantic ticket kiosks and nearly every open space covered in...
Fez, Gare du Marrakesh, ONCF, Rabat, Tangier

Fez to host an international conference on 'women and new media in the Mediterranean' on June 24-26

Yacout Info | 06/16/2011 | News
The city of Fez will host, on June 24-26, an international conference on "women and new media in the Mediterranean," with the participation of experts and academics from over 20 countries.     The meeting, held at the initiative of ISIS center for Women and Development, will examine...
Fez, ISIS centre, women and new media in the med

Kazem El Saher and Asma Lmnawar greeted with a flood of applause at Bab Al Makina Fez

Yacout Info | 06/12/2011 | Patrimony
Kazem El Saher, is famous Arabic songs, and Asma Lmnawar young Moroccan artist who expresses the versatility of a new generation of artists, occurred Saturday evening at Bab Al Makina Fez in the 17th edition of the Festival of World Sacred Music.   In the presence of many foreign spectators...
Asma Lmnawar, Bab Al Makina, Fez, Houhibouki Kuli, Ini Khayartouki, Kazem El Saher, khtari F, Nassittou Dai hina Dawai jaa, Zidini Ichaân.

Fez: The art of painting in homage to sacred music!

Yacout Info | 06/05/2011 | News
the spiritual capital will organize several art exhibitions on the sidelines of the 17th Festival of World Sacred Music and the 6, 7 and 8 June The exhibitions are organized by the Spirit of Fes Foundation, Galerie Fan Dok and their partners. At the Batha Museum, the exhibition "fleeting encounter"...
Abdelhay Demnati, Batha Museum, Fez, Mohamed Krich, World Sacred Music

The spectacular "Leyla and Majnun", an opportunity to explore the creation of a universal work

Yacout Info | 06/04/2011 | Culture
The spectacular "Leyla and Majnun, or mystical love," which will open this evening, Bab Al Makina, the 17th Festival of Sacred Music in Fez, is an opportunity to explore the creation of a universal work which has inspired many artists Arab, Kurd, Pashtun, Hindu, Urdu or Bengali, said Armand Amar,...
Armand Amar, Bab Al Makina, Festival of Sacred Music, Fez, Leyla and Majnun

HRH Princess Lalla Salma presides over opening of 17th Fez Festival of World sacred music

Yacout Info | 06/04/2011 | News
HRH Princess Lalla Salma presided, on Friday evening in Fez, over the opening ceremony of the 17th Fez festival of World sacred music, organised under the patronage of HM King Mohammed VI under the theme "Wisdoms of the World".    HRH the Princess followed the "Majnoun and Layla" concert...
Fez, Lalla Salma, Sacred Music festival

Morocco: From Souks to the Seaside

Yacout Info | 06/03/2011 | Yacoupedia
Nestled in the North-Western most tip of Africa, Morocco undoubtedly offers something for everyone. Due to its rich and varied history, the scenery, culture and infrastructure alters dramatically depending on region. Be it the traditional Berber dynasties, the arrival of the Arabs, or the French...
Essaouira, Fez, Marrakech

WTA Fez tennis Tour 2011: Morocco's Nadia Lalami advances to second round

Yacout Info | 04/24/2011 | News
Moroccan tennis player Nadia Lalami qualified, on Tuesday, for the second round of the 11th WTA tennis event, the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, which runs from April 16-24 on the courts of the Fez Royal tennis club.     Lalami, who received a wild-card invitation from the...
Fez, Nadia Lalami, Tennis

The 6th FITUF calls on the Arab world

Yacout Info | 04/20/2011 | News
The 6th International Festival of Theatre University of Fez (FITUF) opened on Tuesday night at the Al Houria cultural complex which has the distinction of hosting this year several Arab theatre troupes. The  Arab character of this event  is also highlighted through the holding for the...
Abdessamad Kanfaoui, Fez, FITUF, Lamnii Hassan, Mohamed and Kaout Azzedine Bou

Karima Skalli flies in for Sufi singing festival in Fez

Yacout Info | 04/16/2011 | News
Moroccan singer Karima Skalli is singing this Saturday, April 16, at the opening of the 5th edition of the Fez Festival of Sufi Culture under the theme "Female figures of Sufism.    Karima Skalli was in Damascus as part of the Festival "The woman still sings" In this edition, which...
Festival of Sufi Music, Fez, Karima Skalli, women

Camilla jokes after henna tattoo

Yacout Info | 04/06/2011 | News
The Duchess of Cornwall got a henna tattoo on her finger and joked: "This will look good at the wedding."   Camilla also went on something of a spending spree in Morocco on the last day of her visit with the Prince of Wales. As Charles met religious leaders, his wife toured the busy medina in...
Cafe Clock, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Fez, Henn, Mike Richardson

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