أرشيف الوسم : Morocco

Floods in Morocco triggered by torrential rains have left 11 people dead, a local television state reported on Monday, only a week after a storm had killed 36 people. Storms lashed the south of Morocco yet again, with resort town Agadir experiencing over 10 inches (250 millimeters) of rainfall, equivalent to a year’s worth of rain, from Friday to Sunday. …

سيتم تكريم الوطنيين العرب الأميركيين في يوم المحاربين القدامى في معرض أصلي يقدمه المتحف الوطني العربي الأمريكي (AANM) في بهو مكتب مجلس الشيوخ  في مبنى راسل في الكابيتول هيل بواشنطن. المعرض يحمل عنوان “وطنيون وصناع سلام”  و يفتح أبوابه من 10 إلى 14 نوفمبر وهو مفتوح للجميع و الدخول مجاني. و في عرض تفاعلي  للوسائط المتعددة تروى قصص حقيقية من …

The town of Erfoud in the middle of a palm grove in Morocco’s eastern desert watches over a rare treasure – petrified skeletons of prehistoric creatures. The oasis town, home to around 30,000 people, has been called by archaeologists and geologists as “the largest open air fossil museum in the world”. According to locals, the town was under the sea …

International non-governmental charity Save the Children on Wednesday placed a full-page advert in several British newspapers, listing names of the 373 Palestinian children killed by the Israeli offensive in Gaza as a part of their campaign for a permanent truce in the region. The black-and-white advertisement carries the names given out by the Palestinian Ministry of Health and United Nations …

Written By Tom Verde In the “Northern Italian” room of Washington’s National Gallery of Art hangs a somber, dark-toned likeness of a young scholar entitled “Portrait of a Humanist.” Painted in Rome about 1520, the bearded, black-robed figure stands partially illuminated in a three-quarters pose. His dark eyes are fixed, his posture self-assured. His long, elegant hands seem well-suited to …