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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next Door
The writer reflects on the role of language, foreign and Arabic, colloquial and classical, in Morocco; and on the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next Door
Daesh's depravity may be as much imitative as original; and the writer considers how the battle over freedom of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next Door
The motives of many young would-be jihadists are childlike—the appeal of becoming ‘super-heroes’ to fill an...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next Door
The author considers the wave of gory Isis propaganda and the violent wielding of an old tool with new vectors, a...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next Door
The author asks how small children will survive sukuns - Morocco's spoken tongue; ponders the word "museum"; and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next Door
The author ponders literacy, the literate 'red blood corpuscles of society', and the way Arabic is taught in the...
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Published in: HomeBliss Was It in that Dawn to be Next Door
In which our author underestimates the good vibrations in British Film Week in Morocco, enjoys a steel band, and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next Door
The difficulties for transnational African students and the situation in Egypt are the subjects for this month's...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next Door
The author considers how education may impact on a society's growing propensity to resort to violence. This column...
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Published in: HomeBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next Door
Our columnist warns western commentators quick to advocate caution to Egyptians, that if they are honest noone knows...
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Published in: HomeBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next Door
Self-awareness and cultural pride are very important. But are they to be centrifugal or centripetal? The...
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Published in: HomeBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next Door
In which the author increases his understanding of the intellectual and educational condition of modern Morocco with...
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Published in: HomeBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next Door
February 17 is the anniversary of the Day of Rage in Benghazi which kicked off the Libyan Revolution in 2011. But...
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Published in: HomeBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next Door
Bookshops are places where the rhizome of culture breaks ground, connected beneath the earth but apparently separate...
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Published in: HomeBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next Door
Dispassionate analysis of social and political problems is what is needed to build a better society. Thirty Moroccan...
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Published in: HomeBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next Door
The effects of learning Arabic from two different angles – as a cause of illiteracy in Morocco, and a spurned langue...