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Tourism and "Vision 2020" The next step

Yacout Info | 2010-07-22 | News

Yassir Zenagui, Minister of Tourism is consulting with all concerned parties on a roadshow to promote "Vision 2020" and agree a programme which will be presented at the Assises du Tourisme to be held on the 14th October in Marrakech. The Minister noted that tourism in Morocco has grown more that 10...

Agadir, CRT, Marrakech, Rabat, Yassir Zenagui

The 45 th National Festival of Popular Arts 16 to 24 July 2010

Yacout Info | 2010-07-13 | Patrimony

First organised in 1959 under His Late Majesty Mohammed V, The National Festival of Popular Arts (FNAP) set itself the objective of contributing to the conservation of the national oral tradition. This year an exciting programme of performances is being held under the theme of "the musical...

Aisawa, aita and the new generation po, amazight art, chaabi, FNAP, Marrakech, song

Morocco: mysteries, magic... and my roots

Nadia Diboun - Yacout Info | 2010-06-30 | Tourism

Born and raised in Western Pennsylvania, Nadia Diboun has always wondered about her Moroccan heritage, bequeathed by her absent father. She went to Marrakech to discover it. I was lost, deep in the labyrinth of narrow winding passageways, somewhere within the ancient souk of Marrakech. Closing in...

Magic market, Marrakech, Nadia Diboun

Dr Aziz Cherkaoui : Men and Monuments of Marrakech.

Colin Kilkelly-Yacout Info | 2010-06-11 | Portrait

Dr Aziz Cherkaoui is a Marrakechi born in the famous quartier of Kaat ben Nahid. He studied at what is now the Lycée Hassan II and obtained his Bac at the Lycée Victor Hugo. He studied medicine in Rabat and obtained his diploma and his doctorate in vetinary studies in France in 1972. He is the...

Dr Aziz Cherkaoui, Hommes et Monuments, Marrakech, Medina, Seven Saints of Marrakech

Street circuit debut awaits Bratt in Marrakech

Yacout Info | 2010-04-29 | News

Will Bratt makes his first ever visit to the Marrakech street circuit in Morocco this weekend, 1st/2nd May, when the second event of the 2010 FIA Formula 2 Championship gets underway, reports Motorsport.com. Will Bratt makes his first ever visit to the Marrakech street circuit in Morocco this...

Agdal, Formula 2, Grand¨Prix, Marrakech, Will bratt

ZDF TV: the Germans take stock of Marrakech

Yacout Info | 2010-04-27 | Tourism

ZDF TV- Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen is the second public-service German television channel . It has a viewing audience of 3 to 4 million for its destinations programme. Yacout Info met ZDF during the filming of a programme on Marrakech. Yacout Info: Which tourism destinations has ZDF TV selected...

Dar El Yacout, Majorelle, Marrakech, ZDF TV

International Symposium on Composites and Aircraft Materials

Yacout Info | 2010-04-09 | News

The ONDA (Office National des Aéroports) through Mohammed VI International Academy of Civil Aviation (AIMAC) and the School of Technology, University Ibn Zohr Agadir, in partnership with the National School of Engineers of Tarbes (France) and INSA of Rouen will hold the "2010 International...

aircrafts material, composites, energy, international symposium, Marrakech, safety

"Capacity is Development " UNDP conference in Marrakech: A global event on smart strategies and capable institutions for 2015 and beyond

Yacout Info | 2010-03-19 | News

Under the High Patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI and cohosted by the United Nations Development Programme and the Government of Morocco and supported by the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of France. The Conference covered policy choices and investment decisions that have...

conference, france, Marrakech, MDGs, morocco, netherlands, UNDP

The Mediterranean Association of Active Women (AMFA)

Yacout Info | 2010-03-18 | News

AMFA has elected Madame Aouatif Berdai as president and on the 15 March in Marrakech AMFA signed 4 cooperation contracts with leading organisations before an audience of distinguished guests at the Hotel El Andalous. AMFA is a non for profit organisation founded on 6 January 2010. Its office is the...

AMFA, Chamber of Commerce, Marrakech, Mediterranean

Tahir Shah: recording the Place Jemaa El Fna

Colin Kilkelly-Yacout Info | 2010-03-08 | Interview

Tahir Shah is visiting Marrakech and recording the sounds and sights which are going on around him in the Place Jemma El Fna with BBC Radio director Neil McCartney, for a BBC radio 3 programme which is due to be broadcast on 10th April 2010. Yacout Info talked to him about his experience of the...

Jemma El Fna, Marrakech, Neil McCartney, Radio 3, Tahir Shah

Ivano Ruffini

Yacout Info | 2010-02-25 | Portrait

He is a self taught painter who studied the great Italian masters and achieved his own style and technical mastery by at first emulating them. For ten years his company Ruffini Decorazioni, located in the Italian province of Reggio Emilia, has created frescos and murals starting in Hong Kong and...

Equatorial Guinea, Italy, Lawrence Arnott Gallery, Marrakech, Paris

2nd International Conference on Micro-finance and New Technologies in March in Marrakech

Yacout Info | 2010-02-22 | News

The 2nd International Conference on Micro-finance and New Technologies will be held from 11 to 12 March in Marrakech. The conference aims to strengthen synergies between the two sectors to develop the use of ICT in microfinance. The first conference was held in India in 2008. Some 50 experts from...

finance, ICT, international conference, Marrakech, MENA, microcredit, planetnet finance

Celia Sandys

Yacout Info | 2010-02-10 | Portrait

Celia Sandys is Sir Winston Churchill's grandaughter and a regular visitor to Morocco who has written for Yacout Info before. We welcomed her on her visit to Marrakech and talked with her about her travels and work and her love of Morocco. Yacout Info: You are a speaker, you have worked on TV...

Churchill, Cuba, Marrakech, Morocco, South Africa, Tehran, World War II

Ambassador Freck Vreeland and Vanessa Vreeland

Colin Kilkelly-Yacout Info | 2010-01-31 | Yacoupedia

Ambassador Freck Vreeland was the United States Ambassador to Morocco 1992-1993. His Wife Vanessa is a distinguished mosaic artist, whose work Yacout Info has had the pleasure of featuring in a previus issue. We visited their house in La Palmeraie "Orchard of the Shooting Stars". The great door...

Aspen Institute, Burma, CIA, John Cabot University, Kennedy, Marrakech, Noorweb, Vreeland, White House

MTM: The crisis, an opportunity to clean up the activity

Yacout Info | 2010-01-17 | News

The impact of the economic crisis on the tourism sector in Morocco and the Mediterranean region, has been the focus of a conference organized in the framework of the Moroccan Travel Market (MTM) held in Marrakech from 14 to 17 January. Europe has lost 20 million tourists following the crisis while...

crisis, Marrakech, Moroccan travel market, Morocco, MTM, tourism

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Forging ahead with Visionary Growth

The strategy of His Majesty King Mohammed VI for Morocco’s development forges ahead with steady progress in an uncertain world. Few countries are seeing this level of confident...

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100 years of orientalist posters at Jardin Majorelle
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Huntley to sue over prison attack

Soham killer Ian Huntley is to sue the Prison Service for compensation after his throat was slashe...

2010-07-30 23:47
Coroner raises rail safety fears

A coroner raises ongoing safety fears as an inquest jury blames a points failure for the 200...

2010-07-30 17:26
UK soldiers push to clear Taliban

Hundreds of UK soldiers launch an operation to clear Taliban insurgents from a key stronghold i...

2010-07-30 13:06

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