Moroccan News Briefs #99

9th edition of the Festival of the Amazigh Culture
Festival de la Culture Amazighe

The 9th edition of the Festival of Amazigh Culture takes place in Fez from the 5th to 7th of July. It is billed as a World Congress and has the theme "Amazigh and Andalusia".

The Congress will be held at the 'Palais des Congres' during the day and live music in the Lalla Meryem garden next to the Grand Hotel at 7pm and Bab Makina from 9:30 p.m.

The public are welcome to attend concerts, interact with speakers and world-class experts and to participate in discussions.

There is no entry fee and entry to all concerts is free. For those of you who come from outside of Fez, the organisers can help you get a reduced hotel price or shelter rates.

Programme

VENDREDI 5 JUILLET 2013
PALAIS DES CONGRES
Congrès Mondial sur “Amazighité et Andalousie »
Ouverture : 16 :00 - 18 :30 -OUVERTURE
-HOMMAGE A ABDESLAM AHIZOUN
-PREMIERE SEANCE DU CONGRES

JARDIN LALLA MERYEM
19 :00 - 21 :00 - AHIDOUS KALAAT MGOUNA (Maroc)
-MAJID MOURAD (Maroc)

BAB MAKINA
21 :30 - 23 :30 - AHIDOUS KALAAT MGOUNA (Maroc)
- NAJAT ATABOU (Maroc)

SAMEDI 6 JUILLET 2013
PALAIS DES CONGRES
Congrès Mondial sur “Amazighité et Andalousie »
9 :00 - 14 :00
17:00- 18:30
-TRAVAUX DU CONGRES ET DEBATS

-ATELIER D’ECRITURE
-projection de film « Explusion 1609 La Tragédie de Morisque

JARDIN LALLA MERYEM
19 :00 - 21 :00 - Group Kwasser (Maroc)
- ALI AMRANE (Algérie)

BAB MAKINA
21 :30 - 23 :30 - Groupe Kwasser (Maroc)
- Fatima Raissi Tihihit Banou

DIMANCHE 7 JUILLET 2013
PALAIS DES CONGRES
Congrès Mondial sur “Amazighité et Andalousie »
9 :00 - 13 :30 -TRAVAUX DU CONGRES ET DEBATS
-ATELIER DE L'ALPHABET TIFINAGH
- LECTURE DE POESIE

JARDIN LALLA MERYEM
19 :00 - 21 :00 - FLAMINGO (Espagne) : Fès-Andalousie
- Najmat Rif (Maroc)

BAB MAKINA
21 :30 - 23 :30 -Ahidous Tahla
- ABDELAZIZ STATI (Maroc)


INLAC boosts intercultural exchanges

Fatima Sadiqi reports that the International Institute for Languages and Cultures (INLAC) in Fez, has recently hosted students and staff from Lewis and Clark (University of Oregon, Protland).

The semester long program allowed fruitful interactions between American and Moroccan students and boosted intercultural exchanges between the Amercian and the Moroccan cultures.


Casablanca gets its first detective novel

Karima Rhanem, writing for Morocco World News, reports that a novel, Inspector Dalil in Casablanca being published today will be the first crime novel set in Casablanca that the country has produced. The author is Moroccan writer and journalist Soufiane Chakouche.

Published by Casa Express Editions, the novel tells a story of Dalil ("proof" in English) a brilliant police inspector from Tangiers with a devastating humor. On the day of his 50th birthday, when he was planning to visit the beautiful Rayna in cadiz, he got another mission, but first of its kind: to stop a dangerous serial killer in Casablanca.

The killer adds fuel to fire by assassinating public figures known for their opposition to the regime in the context of “Arab Spring.” The police and crime scene investigators are dispatched in different dark corners and lost in the madness of crowds.

Intrigue, wordplay, anagrams, puzzle to a reader who loves to read between the lines. With this first novel, the thriller author of Soufiane Chakouche signs a new era in Moroccan literature. With Inspector Dalil, Casablanca finally gets its first police novel.

Soufiane Chakouche

Inspired by Casablanca where he was born, author Soufiane Chakouche said that “there is an incredible movement in Casablanca streets, you meet people from all walks of lives with different stories, and millions of things happened there every signle minute. As you read the novel, you will see unprecedented things and I tried as much as I can to engage the reader to solve a puzzle of the murder.”

The character of “Dalil” was born during Chakouche’s first novel The Third Eye published by Marsam editions in 2010, after taking part in the French Cultural Center’s national contest “The New black,” referring to police novels. Soufiane Chakouche was selected among the eleven winners. And the journey of writing begins. Inspector Dalil became popular among the public who has been awaiting a new adventure. The writer’s background in engineering and statistics increased his reasoning ability and made him a perfect writer for this writing style.

So do you think that inspector Dalil will be able with the help of his hacker nephew to stop the serial killer known for using Beretta, a semi-automatic pistols made in Italy? You will find the answer today in good bookstores and libraries.


The World's Best Butter - Now available in Morocco

According to the Morocco's latest customs figures, New Zealand has strengthened its butter sales to Morocco to now account for just over half of Morocco's total imports of butter this year.

By contrast, European imports accounted for a little over 8% of all butter sold to Moroccan buyers by foreign traders in the first four months of 2013. In New Zealand dollars the trade is worth around 57 million.

New Zealand also exports cheese and curd products to Morocco.

And finally

During a lecture after Magrib salaat (evening prayer) Imam Mula Nasruddin suddenly announced: “If you know your wife is controlling you, please move to the left.”

All the men in the Mosque moved to the left except Jallaluddin.

Mula Nasruddin was very amused and asked: “How is it that your wife can't control you?”

Jallaluddin quietly and very nervously replied,“Imam, it's my wife who told me not to move!"

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