Rural Moroccan Rug Weavers Fight Recession Nov 14, 2009
While the World Bank estimate 00004000 s Moroccans make an average of $6 per day, in these arid hills south of the Atlas Mountains, that figure seems optimistic. Seated on the cement floor of a home where she raised seven children, Nid Lchguer said immediate needs have sometimes forced her to sell a finished carpet for as little as $40. (Newsmax)
Students, Teachers Need To Be Transculturally Literate, Expert Says Oct 27, 2009
Students will follow eight weeks of study of Moroccan history, politics, language, culture and education with a two-week trip to Rabat, where they'll meet with students at a university, and Azrou, a small city in the Middle Atlas mountains, where they'll help high school students to prepare for their version of the baccalaureate exam. Any student who has an authentic experience of interacting with students from a Middle Eastern country is going to have a different view of the Israeli-Palestinian... (Science Daily)
Mamounia hotel reopens in Marrakech Oct 9, 2009
One such view painted in 1935, Sunset Over the Atlas Mountains, was auctioned in New York for 350,000 last year. Another painting he made of Marrakech in 1948 and later offered to President Harry Truman fetched 950,000. (Carroll County Times, MD)
Language masters Sep 3, 2009
"Now we have our own television channel and magazines in Berber. We feel much closer now to people in the Rif and Atlas Mountains.". But for intellectuals and activists, this is just the beginning. (BBC News -- Africa)
Russia and Poland trade insults on WW2 anniversary... Sep 2, 2009
Ten of the best private riads to be found in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains. Hot topics. (The Drudge Report)
Success of abstinence in cutting teen pregnancies is a 'myth' Sep 2, 2009
" In Britain, experts say that the Government missed its target of cutting the under-18 pregnancy rate by 15 per cent from its 1998 level in spite of the 150 million campaign to reduce pregnancies among young girls. It was also likely to miss its target of halving teenage pregnancies by 2010, probably achieving a reduction of about 17 per cent. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1535684/Success-of-abstinence-in-cutting-teen-pregnancies-is-a-myth.html External Links More on Advertisement... (Yahoo News -- Birth Control)
Win a holiday Jul 18, 2009
Green/eco category:Three nights B&B for two at Kasbah du Toubkal, a spectacularly-located, eco-friendly lodge in Moroccos Atlas Mountains. Royal Air Maroc () will provide a pair of return flights from Gatwick to Marrakech. (Guardian Unlimited -- Travel)
Odicy.com, the Online Booking Agency Dedicated to Morocco, Launches the New Connexplace Affiliation Platform Jun 17, 2009
You will appreciate the delicacies served on the terrace restaurant, while you lose yourself in magnificent views of the Atlas mountains. And of course if you think that guilty pleasure comes with luxury, discover the enchantment of walking down the majestic cypress alley. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Steve doesn't usually do things by halves May 16, 2009
"You know, Marrakesh, the Sahara, the Atlas Mountains, the French foreign legion." Not that it was the usual tourist trip. Race organisers provided basic maps to be used with compasses, water stations at 15- to 20-kilometre intervals and medical aid, provided by French specialists the Doc Trotters, "aimed more at keeping you alive than running". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
World's Most Perfect Massage? May 3, 2009
Relaxing for a few minutes in the mosaic-tiled steam room, I was shown to a private massage room, dimly lit and decorated with a mural of the distant Atlas Mountains. I climbed onto the table and covered myself with a towel, already starting to unwind in anticipation of the relaxation to come. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
The Marrakesh express, children welcome Mar 11, 2009
Below us lay a sea of terra-cotta and ruby roofs, interrupted only by the gap of a courtyard, a towering palm tree or a glistening mosque, with the outline of the Atlas Mountains framing the horizon ... By design, even our most active day an excursion with a driver into the high Atlas Mountains, with their deep canyons, rocky plains and cumin-colored hills was not overly taxing. (International Herald Tribune)
Freeing the spirit in Morocco Mar 4, 2009
A local had told me the castle, Kasbah du Toubkal, had been turned into a Berber hotel in the High Atlas Mountains ... In the first week of October, at the end of the tourist season in the Atlas Mountains, we landed in Marrakesh, the arrival city for Atlas travel ... The Atlas Mountains cut across North Africa, running 1,500 miles though Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
World's First 4K 3D Digital Cinema Camera System For Studio, Location, and Underwater Filming With RED(TM) Cameras Mar 4, 2009
He has traveled to all seven continents, filming from the top of the Atlas Mountains to under the Ice of Antarctica. Source: Liquid Pictures. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Snow kills six Moroccan children Feb 7, 2009
The mother of the four girls and two boys reportedly survived the collapse in Azilal, in the Atlas mountains ... The snow showers are predicted to continue until Saturday, especially in the Atlas Mountains, reports the AFP news agency. (BBC News -- Africa)
