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THE MAGHREB THROUGH LANGUAGE (French original) Ahmed Soussi SEPT. 4 There is something strange, at first glance, about the status of Malikism in Morocco. A school of jurisprudence—that is, a set of methods for deriving legal rules from the Quran and the prophetic tradition—occupies a place there that is reserved elsewhere for political ideologies. The Constitution and official discourse make…
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DR. RAMI KOUJAH In the northeast of Morocco, there is a small, unassuming town called Al Aaroui. It is home to a proud, stalwart Berber people: the Riffians. You could drive the length of this dusty stretch of buildings in about 5 minutes. But you will not find luxe riads, ornately carved mosques, or any cuisine worth writing home about.…
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Kevin Barrett for Magrebi.org and Al-Andalus Tribune On August 25, corresponding to the 12th of Rabi al-Awwal, Morocco celebrated Mawlid al-Nabi, the Prophet’s birthday. While not on the same level as the two major Muslim holidays, the two Eids, the Mawlid is an important occasion in Morocco. My family celebrated with festive cous-cous (the kind with lamb, raisins, and almonds,…
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Ceuta and the Long Memory of Purity: You are a virus born to die Inside the Line By Mo Hamdouni, Moroccan Epistemologies In everyday usage, ghorba names strangeness and the fact of leaving one’s land under obligation in order to reach another. One hears exile in it immediately, and stops there. But exile presupposes a whole land left behind, a…
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By: Middle East Eye | Date: November 12, 2025 | Youtube.com In a new ITV documentary, Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, former Israeli soldiers describe how Gaza civilians were killed, often without warning, in an environment where “anything that moves” became a target. In the hour-long film, soldiers reveal how young and unarmed Palestinians were used as human shields in…
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By: Financial Historian | Date: December 5, 2025 | Youtube.com Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali lived during the height of the Islamic Golden Age, but his analysis of money, morality, and power feels like it was written for the 21st century. This video uncovers how a medieval scholar understood the psychology of wealth, the danger of corruption, and the economic consequences of…
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By Kevin Barrett, for Al-Andalus Tribune Agadir is a major city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, south of Marrakesh and Asfi. As the urban hub of southwestern coastal Morocco, it’s all the way across the country from where I live in Saidia, the far northeastern corner where the Algerian border meets the Mediterranean. I decided to visit Agadir for…
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By: The School of Soulidarity | Date: October 19, 2025 | Youtube.com The Quantum Traverse: The Origin and Evolution of Life, Consciousness, Extraterrestrial Life, and the Unification of Physics. Nadeem’s book argues that the four ‘Big Questions’, i.e., life’s origins, consciousness, extraterrestrial life, and physics unification, are deeply interconnected, rather than siloed topics. Nadeem Haque is a researcher and author…
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Anti-genocide protesters turned out in huge numbers in the Spanish cities of Barcelona and Valencia on Wednesday during a widely-supported general strike for Gaza, which labor unions staged to challenge Trump-n-Yahoo’s dubious “ceasefire” between Hamas and and the GZE (Genocidal Zionist Entity, pronounced “JEEEZ!”) Tens of thousands participated in the protests. Fifteen people were arrested in Barcelona, where Starbucks and…
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By: Punish Studios | Date: October 5, 2025 | Youtube.com “Gaza City” is a hard-hitting protest rock track from Johnny Punish — a raw, unapologetic anthem exposing the horror, hypocrisy, and human cost of war. Written in the tradition of Joe Strummer and punk’s conscience, this song takes aim at governments, profiteers, and the machinery of genocide — while standing…
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