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Shattering Stereotypes By Breaking Waves

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By ELISE CAMPBELL

RABAT, Morocco – “My favorite color is black, like my eyes,” Oumaima Erhali, 17, said with a smile as she drew in the sand with her untied, muddy skate shoes. As the ocean breeze tickled her face, she tightened the strings that held a black hood over her head and slid a shell into the cargo pocket of her Hawaiian-printed board shorts.

Erhali doesn’t cook with her family, because she’s too busy spicing up her shoes with sand. She also doesn’t wear a hijab, even though she’s a dedicated Muslim.

In Morocco, Immigrants’ Children Face Educational Barriers

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This story was published by Al Fanar Media on February 7, 2014

By IMANI BRAMMER

TANGIER, Morocco—A 10-year-old boy is standing in front of the whiteboard across from a broken-down bed covered with old Moroccan style multi-colored blankets. In his teacher’s bedroom-turned-classroom, with dim, orange tinted lighting, eroding paint and pen-inked graffiti walls, Chris David, an undocumented migrant from Nigeria, stands erect, arms firmly to his side, head up and recites a poem.

Last August, near the Plaza de Toro square in Tangier in northern Morocco, on Tetouan road, down a steep hill and through an alleyway of gravel, John Churchill, a migrant, created the Neighborhood Education Center.

Guerrilla filmmakers celebrate anniversary of Morocco’s ‘Arab uprising’

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This story was published by Global Post on February 24, 2014 

By ALLISON SHIRK

RABAT, Morocco — As the sun set behind the train station in Morocco’s capital, a young man sat behind a café window watching protesters march past the parliament building, demanding jobs from the government.

Youness Belghazi, who once was an active member of one of the biggest protest movements in Morocco, no longer marches. Now, Belghazi said, he uses the camera he held firmly in his lap as his weapon against the injustices he says his country faces.

Stranded in Morocco, Syrians join African migrants in storming Europe’s door

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This story was published by the Christian Science Monitor on February 28, 2014.

By ELLA BANKA

Abdel Karim is a boy without a country. His parents, Adel and Alia Alkhalaf, are Syrian asylum seekers who entered Morocco without visas, and their legal limbo has left their youngest son, born six months ago in Morocco, without citizenship anywhere.

“We live day by day,” murmurs 29-year-old Adel. The couple has three children: Abdel Karim, with his wide, toothless, sweet smile; Mustafa, an eight-year-old with olive green eyes; and Sileen, a two-year-old troublemaker.

In Morocco, Snail Soup Warms the Medina

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By WILL MATSUDA

RABAT, Morocco – A mild winter lingers in Morocco and in the streets of the old medinas, locals can be found huddling around steaming vats of snail soup. The soup is called “bebouch” in Morocco’s Arabic dialect. The soup is so popular that Abderrahim Idriss has been making a living off of selling bebouch for 25 years.

Idriss owns a snail soup stall on one of the main streets in the old medina of Rabat. As the medina closed down for the night and the last shoppers hurried home, he sipped his batch.

What it means to be ‘Amazigh’ in Morocco

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By JP KEENAN

This story was published by Global Post on January 24, 2014.

The ethnic group indigenous to North Africa calls for national observance of their new year, and many say recent reforms haven’t reached rural communities.

RABAT, Morocco — Berbers young and old clenched balloons and flags last week as they gathered outside Parliament calling for a national observance of their new year.

The Berbers, an ethnic group indigenous to North Africa also referred to as the Amazigh, predate the Arabs of Morocco, but historically they have been left out of the political process. 

Women Provide “Spiritual Security” In Morocco

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By SAMANTHA HARRINGTON

This story was published by Reuters on Dec. 12, 2013.

Boots on the ground, drones in the skies, and government surveillance of electronic communications have become standard American tools for warding off extremist violence. The Kingdom of Morocco has armed itself with a dramatically different weapon: using the soft power of religious women to quell violence before it happens. They call it “spiritual security.”

After 9/11 shook the world, Moroccan leaders began to think, “It could happen here,” and it did. In 2003, a dozen suicide bombers with ties to al-Qaida blew themselves up in Casablanca, Morocco’s economic center.

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