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Tags (23) : Tangier

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

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

Yacout Info | 09/29/2011 | 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

Mediterranean Short Film Festival of Tangier: Five Moroccan films in competition

Yacout Info | 09/07/2011 | News
Five Moroccan films were selected by the Selection Committee for short films to participate in the Moroccan official competition of the 9th edition of the Short Film Festival of Tangier Mediterranean (3 to 8 October this year).   The five short films were selected for the Festival of...
Ali Benjelloun, Benyamina Uda, CCM, Halima Ouardiri, Mediterranean Short Film Festival, Mokhtar, On the Road to Paradise, Tangier, Waves of Time

Biography of the late HRH Princess Lalla Aicha

Yacout Info | 09/07/2011 | News
The Late HRH Princess Lalla Aicha who died on Sunday evening, was born June 17, 1930 at the royal palace in Rabat, in the reign of the late King Mohammed V, her August father.  Surrounded by paternal solicitude, the young princess revealed her  very young and  keen intellect...
Ambassador London, HRH Princess Lalla Aicha, Moroccan Women, National Union of morocc and women, Tangier

Tanjazz, from September 21 to 25 , Tangier

Yacout Info | 08/25/2011 | News
The 12th Tanjazz festival will be held from September 21 to 25 in Tangier, announced the organisers in Casablanca on tuesday night.  This edition will bring together a stellar roster of performances that will occur on different stages, among others,  the Palais des Nations and the...
festival, Fouad Hani, Italian Institute, Palais des nations, Roy Hargrove, Sarah Lenka, Tangier, Tanjazz, Yabato Nakimya

12th edition in autumn for Tanjazz

Yacout Info | 08/09/2011 | News
The organizers of the Jazz Festival of Tangier, Tanjazz, are preparing the twelfth edition of this event with great excitement. By the end of the summer, the notes of the trumpets monopolize the autumn air of the city and its various scenes.   From  21 to 25 September different ...
be bop, Lillian Boutté, Moulay Hafid Palace, New Orleans, Tangier, Tanjazz

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

"Out Land," a group show at the opening of a new art space in Tanger

Yacout Info | 06/01/2011 | News
The contemporary art space AEA has recently opened in Tangier with organizing a group exhibition titled "Out Land.  The International Exhibition of books Tangier light takes major development sites in the region Tangier-Tetouan This new gallery, which came with the dynamics facing the middle...
Abdelbassit Ben Dahmane, Abdelkrim Ouazzani, Adil Rabih.Raihani Youssef, Bouabid Bouzaid, Melehi Mohamed, Out Land, Rabih Adil, Saad Bin Cheffaj, Tangier, Tetouan

The Tangier International Exhibition of books highlights major development sites in the Tangier-Tetouan region.

Yacout Info | 05/01/2011 | News
The International Exhibition of books Tangier light takes major development sites in the region Tangier-Tetouan The program of this edition, presented  on Wednesday at a press conference, plans two new exhibitions, one on the Tangier Med port complex called "Tanger Med in the eye", mounted in...
International Book Salon, Tangier

Transavia launches Paris-Tangier summer air route

Yacout Info | 04/18/2011 | News
Low cost airline Transavia, a subsidiary of Air France-KLM, announced the launch of a summer air route linking Paris-Orly to Tangier, its fourth Moroccan destination. Starting June 21 and until October 11, the company will operate, every Tuesday, flights between Paris airport Orly-South and the...
Air France KLM, Paris, Tangier, Transavia

Tangier's Librairie des Colonnes proves it's more than just a bookshop

Yacout Info | 03/20/2011 | Patrimony
Although a recently restored bookshop in the northern Moroccan city of Tangier might reasonably have the sale of books off its shelves as its chief concern, this smart urban intellectual centre is setting its sights higher. On its agenda is the task of revitalising a literary review, planning new...
Driss Chraibi, Editions Gallimard, Jean Genet, Khalil Benani, Librairie des Colonnes, Marguerite Yourcenar, Mohamed Choukri, Paul Bowles, Samuel Beckett, Tangier

A US Trade Delegation will visit Casablanca and Tangier 30 March-1 April 2011

Yacout info | 03/18/2011 | News
As part of the Moroccan-American cooperation in the field of trade, a trade delegation led by Assistant Secretary of the Department of Start, Suresh Kumar will visit Morocco, and this from March 30 to April 1 . During their visit to Morocco, the members of this delegation will have individual...
Casablanca, Morocco, Suresh Kumar, Tangier, Trade Delegation, US

Spanish car company invests 11 million euros in Morocco, press

Yacout Info | 03/08/2011 | News
"Jobelsa", a Spanish car components company in Tangier, invested 11 million euros for boosting its presence in Morocco, Spanish paper "Expansion" said on Monday. Established since October near the Renault plant in Tangier, Jobelsa invested this amount of money to purchase new machines, said the...
automotive, Jobelsa, Tangier

Ramada Encore makes Africa debut in Morocco

Yacout Info | 03/03/2011 | News
Wyndham Hotel Group, the world's largest hotel company based on number of hotels and one of three business units of Wyndham Worldwide (NYSE:WYN) today announced the development of the first Ramada Encore hotel in Africa. Expected to open in 2012, the new 195-room Ramada Encore Tangier is currently...
Pearl One, Ramada Encore, Taameer Real Estate Investment, Tangier, Wyndham Hotel Group

Real Estate: Still no real recovery

Yacout info | 03/03/2011 | Economy
Real estate transactions are done in dribs and drabs. Since early 2011, professionals (promoters, lawyers, bankers, realtors ...) complain of a lull in the market. This is a phenomenon that occurs in a context of overproduction and large stocks of unsold homes. Curiously, there are stand-by sales...
Casablanca, Marrakech, Morocco, Real Estate, Tangier

TANJAzz Festival, Tangier, Morocco Sept 21-25 2011

Yacout Info | 02/08/2011 | Patrimony
The e-mail query came out of the blue. Want to be flown to Tangier, Morocco, to cover the TANJAzz Festival? The answer was a no-brainer of course. This scribe has covered countless jazz festivals over the decades, but never one in as exotic a locale as Morocco. The e-mail query came out of the...
Tangier, Tanjazz

National Film Festival: The Critics Award will be unveiled on Saturday

Yacout Info | 01/27/2011 | News
The critics' award for best feature and short films in official competition at the 12th National Film Festival will be unveiled Saturday at Tangier. The jury for this award is composed of Ahmed Ferttat, Boubker Hihi, Abdeljalil Lbouiri, Azzedine Wafi and Said Mezouari (members of the Moroccan...
Critcs Award, National Film Festival, Tangier

Tangier, 4th national tourism destination in the 3rd quarter 2010

Yacout Info | 01/04/2011 | News
The city of Tangier has risen to rank fourth tourist destination in Morocco at the end of Q3 2010, after occupying the 5th place in 2009, according to data from the Tourism Observatory. Tangier City of the Straits, gained 5 per cent of overnight stays recorded nationally between January and...
Tangier, tourist nights

The training of women and for traditional skills and handicrafts, an action for the economic development of Siwa and Tangiers Dec 2010-May 2011

Yacout Info | 12/17/2010 | News
An initiative of “Siwa & Tangier, a cultural heritage for a better life” project The “Siwa & Tangier: cultural heritage for a better life” project develops several activities aiming at safeguarding and promoting the traditional skills and handicrafts in Tangiers (Morocco) and Siwa...
Euromed, Siwa, Tangier

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