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Sunday February 5, 2012

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1st Solar Expo, 9-12 Feb in Marrakech

Yacout Info | 2012-01-02 | News

Announced a year ago, the first edition of Solar Expo will be held from 9 to 12 February 2012 in Marrakech under the theme "A need to strengthen the commitment to solar energy”. International platform of solar energy, this exhibition is initiated by the international communication agency...

Marrakech, Solar Expo

PURE Life Experiences choose Education For All as their sponsored charity for first International Experiential and Transformational Travel show in Marrakech

Derek Workman for Yacout Info | 2011-10-28 | News

As part of their commitment to Morocco, PURE Life Experiences have chosen to support Marrakech-based charity, Education For All, as part of the first Experiential and Transformational Travel Show. EFA provides accommodation for young girls from impoverished families from the High Atlas Mountains...

Asni, David Workman, Education for All, EFA, Karima Targaoui, Marrakech, Ouirgane, PURE Life Experiences, Serge Dive, Tallat-n-Yacoub

Morocco court sentences Marrakesh bomber to death

Yacout Info | 2011-10-28 | News

A Moroccan judge sentenced Adel Othmani to death on Friday for plotting and carrying out an April 28 bomb attack on a cafe in Marrakesh that killed 17 people, including eight French nationals. The blasts were the deadliest in Morocco since coordinated suicide bombings carried out by Islamist...

Adil otmane, Cafe Argana bomb, Marrakech, sentenced to death

Morocco to be president of Arab Anti-Corruption Network as of December 2011

Yacout Info | 2011-10-27 | News

Morocco will hold, as of December 2011, the presidency of the Arab Anti-Corruption and Integrity Network (ACINET), the president of the body, Yemeni Belqis Abou Osba, whose country holds the current presidency, announced on Thursday in Marrakech. SET up in 2008 in Amman, Jordan, the ACINET...

ACINET, Belqis Abou Osaba, Marrakech, Morocco

A Stroll Around the Souk

Derek Workman for Yacout info | 2011-10-26 | Tourism

I took a stroll around the souk in Marrakech yesterday afternoon, watching the artisans at work, and an interview I did with a Spanish hotel owner a while ago came to mind. He’d spent a couple of years working in Marrakech and had built up a lot of contacts in the small workshops. He told me that...

Derek Workman, Jemaa El Fna, Marrakech, Souk

For this first show of the season Agora Gallery opens its doors to one of the first woman painters in Morocco

Yacout Info | 2011-10-23 | Culture

Malika Agueznay is one of the first Moroccan painters whose work was exhibited in a number of galleries and museums in the Middle East, Europe and the United States. Her work cuts across both the design and execution in incorporating her extensive training in painting and engraving.The exhibition...

Agora, Malika Agueznay, Marrakech

Inauguration in Marrakech for the first eye bank in Morocco

Yacout Info | 2011-10-18 | News

An eye bank, the first of its kind in Morocco, opened Monday in Marrakech, at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Mohammed VI, for a total investment of 6.5 million dirhams of which, 2.5 million spent on dhs the equipment. Installed in a total area of about 200 m2, the new structure...

CHU, Eye bank, Hamid Narjisse, Marrakech, Mohamed Harif

4Nord exhibition with young artists and sculptors from Tetouan at the Galerie Re, Marrakech. until 3rd Dec 2011.

Yacout Info | 2011-10-18 | News

It's always in the spirit of promoting the creation of talented young artists, as we continue since the opening of the gallery in 2006, the gallery opens Ra at the opening of the exhibition 4Nord this season, with four young Tetouan artists, painters and sculptors, Youssef Raihani, Tarik Farssi,...

4 Nord, Abdeljalil Saouli, Bilal Chrif, Galerie Re, Marrakech, Tarik Farssi, Tetouan, Youssef Raithani

Postcard From Marrakech: A Conflicted Photo Festival

Yacout Info | 2011-10-16 | Culture

Located in Marrakech’s luxury hotel district, the Palace Es Saadi is a walled and guarded complex with lush grounds and elaborately tiled fountains. It’s also one of the two venues housing the Marrakech Art Fair, where this year organizers called for submissions of work with a “protest aesthetic” –...

Adel Abidini, Bank of Morocco, Es Saadi, Jamaa El Fna, Marrakech, Marrakech Art Fair

High, Ride and Handsome: By bike in the High Atlas Mountains

Derek Workman for Yacout Info | 2011-10-12 | Yacoupedia

Derek Workman had a vague sort of plan that one day he’d take a long bike-ride through Morocco, but somehow never got around to doing it. Until, that is, he heard about the bike ride that takes place at the end of March every year in the High Atlas Mountains to raise funds for Education For All, a...

Bicycle, Derek Workman, Education for all, girls in the Atlas, High Atlas Mountains, Lalla Takeroust, Marrakech, Mike McHugo

The young photographer Youssef Hadimi exhibits his recent works in Marrakech

Yacout Info | 2011-10-11 | News

Colors, Fan Wa Nour, Marrakech, Youssef Hadimi

Presidents of the juries: Emir Kusturica and Sigourney Weaver FIFM 2-10 December 2011

Yacout Info | 2011-10-11 | News

The 11 th International Film Festival of Marrakech will be held from 2-10 December 2011. Emir Kusturica, president of feature film jury Emir Kusturica films will chair the jury of the 11th Festival International du Film de Marrakech to be held from 2 to 10 December 2011. In 2009, the...

Emir Kusturica, FiFM, IFFM, jury, Marrakech, Mexico, Short films, Signourey Weaver

Oetker Collection to run Morocco's Palais Namaskar

Yacout Info | 2011-10-10 | News

European hotel company The Oetker Collection has added the Palais Namaskar in Marrakech, Morocco to its portfolio, the company’s CEO Frank Marrenbach announced in Dubai yesterday. The deal, which was signed with Philippe Soulier, developer and owner of Palais Namaskar, marks The Oetker...

Marrakech, Oetker Collection, Palais Namskar

Goodbye Tanzania, CAN 2012 here we come!

Yacout Info | 2011-10-10 | News

Morocco sealed qualification for the African Cup of Nations 2012 after beating Tanzania on Sunday in the sixth and final round of the qualifiers. Marouane Chamakh opened the scoring in the 21st minute, Adel Taarabt doubled the lead on an excellent free kick in the 71stminute and Mbark Boussoufa...

CAN 2012, Marrakech, Morocco, Tanzania

CAN 2012 football sixth round: Morocco beats Tanzania 3-1 at Marrakech

Yacout Info | 2011-10-09 | News

Morocco qualified for the finals of the African Cup of Nations (CAN-2012) football, thanks to its victory over Tanzania by 3 goals to 1 on Sunday in Marrakech, in the 6th and final round of qualifying Group D.

CAN 2012, Marrakech, Morocco, Tanzania

Stars in do or die game

Yacout Info | 2011-10-09 | News

Taifa Stars will be gunning for registering one of the shocking results in continental soccer when they take on hosts Morocco in Marrakech tonight, hoping to qualify for 2012 Africa Cup of Nations finals to be hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. Stars who are on five points, three behind...

Marrakech, Morocco, Taifa Stars

Opening of the 12th edition of the Astronomy Festival of Marrakech

Yacout Info | 2011-10-04 | News

12th Astronomy Festival, Al Haouz, Marrakech, Takerkoust

Marrakech: 6th Scientific Conference on the soil of urban and industrial areas (SUITMA 6)

Yacout Info | 2011-10-04 | News

The proceedings of the 6th Scientific Conference on the soil of urban, industrial, traffic, mining and military (Soils of urban, industrial, traffic, mining and military area: SUITMA), opened Monday in Marrakech, with the participation of a gathering of researchers, academics and specialists from...

Marrakech, soil, SUITMA 6, urban

Marrakech: Give in to irresistible contrasts

Yacout Info | 2011-10-04 | Tourism

The fabled history of Morocco tempts the imaginations of many. Wayne Gray shared photos he took during a trip to Marrakech. Meaning “resplendent” or simply “beautiful” depending on the translation, this late 19th century complex was built for a high ranking official and his concubines. Today the...

Jemaa El Fna, Koutoubia, Marrakech

Special on Marrakech on "Canal Atlas" in October

Yacout info | 2011-10-02 | News

Canal Atlas will broadcast this October on " Al Oula "and" Al Maghribia "a special media support to Marrakech the Red City. October programming includes a series of programs involving the Moroccans living abroad (MRE) and the city of Marrakech in the summer of 2011, Canal...

Al Maghribia, Al Oula, Canal Atlas, Marrakech, MRE

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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...

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Hafid Marbou exhibits at Gallery Sous Sol - Agadir (to 2012-02-28)
Tuesday February 7
National Salon for Young Contemporary Talent (to 2012-02-12)
Wednesday February 29
Arts in Marrakech (AIM) Biennale (to 2012-03-04)

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