Thursday, February 21, 2008
So you have a story for The View from Fez...
Each week The View from Fez gets emails from people with stories they think we should publish. When the story is about new business ventures, real estate offers and so on, we politely decline. Other stories are full of scandal and juicy little rumours - and again we decline. So, to save some people the trouble of wasting precious time emailing, we thought it would be good to set out our story guidelines.
We do like to get tips on breaking news. We do share this information with the English language radio service in Morocco who often broadcasts the story or interviews the main players. We love human interest stories, tales of your adventure in Fez (or Morocco in general) and stories of cultural or historical value. We also publish recipes from time to time so feel free to share your favourites.
If you would like to write the item yourself then we would be happy to publish it under your name. But do note that with few exceptions we do not pay a fee.
The story should be of general interest to both Moroccan and expat readers. Stories should be no longer than 500 words. If there is further work to be done such as research, we are happy to assist.
Before submitting a story, please ask yourself the following questions:
(1) Would you be prepared to be quoted? If not we probably won't publish.
(2) Is it really interesting? If we think so we will fact check and probably publish
(3) Can you supply one or more photographs? We love a good pic.
Send your news tip, story idea or written article to The View from Fez : fes.riad@gmail.com
Tags: Moroccan Morocco Fes, Maghreb news
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i was in morocco for 10 days recently for holidays.
i love it. for someone like me from Malaysia, the destination is exotic.
i spent most of the time in the old towns of Casablanca, Fez and Marrakech adn a couple of day in Boumalne du Dades (on the beautiful Atlas).
i made a point to dine witht he locals at their favourite joints. in fact I also had brekfast in the Atlas with a Berber family.
I hope tourism will not take away the true Morrocan values and ways of life. i heard from the locals that someone proposed to open a Mc Donald's within Djema'a al Fna. I hope this will not materialize.
Please keep Morocco intact. I would like to see kids runnign around palying soccer in teh maze of the medinas. i want to see mule carrying products and and out of the medinas. Not mopads.
Your country is beautiful, and your people are even more beautiful, and very warm.
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