Dounia Batma, who reminded crowds of Umm Kulthum and El-Tarab El-Aseel, returned to Morocco to be greeted with a reception befitting a major star. Magharebia talked with her about the “Arab Idol” experience. Magharebia: First, congratulations on achieving success equ ...

The coming of age action flick Agent Vinod starring Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor had the locals in Morocco so mesmerised that they would keep track of the shoot locations and would come to watch the filming for hours at a stretch. The team of Agent Vinod shot for 5 days at a ...

Sara Moatamad, 19, has been named on Sunday as Morocco’s 2012 beauty queen in a competition that was held in the kingdom for the first time ever. Fifteen contenders took part in the Miss Morocco 2012 competition, held in the luxury Mazagan beach resort on the Atlantic coas ...

The Moroccan group Initiative for Support and Victory has organised an arts festival in the capital Rabat to commemorate the third anniversary of Israel's "Operation Cast Lead" against the people of Gaza. The theme of the festival is "Palestine - the blossom of the ...

Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan was honored with an award in recognition of his contribution to Indian cinema, at the opening ceremony of the 11th Marrakech International Film Festival (FIFM), on Dec. 2. The award was presented by Moroccan actress, Houda Rihani. The FIFM, which r ...

The American singer Jennifer Lopez was in Morocco on Thursday to mark the opening of “Morocco Mall” in Casablanca. Morocco mall is the biggest shopping mall in Africa and 5th in the world. The singer was on holiday in Hawaii. With her new toy boy Casper Smart, she je ...

In a story that seems truly unbelievable, Yahoo News ran a slide show featuring tree-climbing goats in Morocco on its website yesterday. Looking at the photos, one will probably immediately think it was a Photoshop job of simply cutting out pictures of goats and then pasting them ...

Ahead of this month's breakdancing world championships in London, Kieran Yates investigates how the street dance is flourishing in the unlikely home of Morocco, where young men and women are body popping their way to a new, more tolerant society. Popping! Locking! Two-step! Robo ...

Rabat - 'Omar killed me' movie, directed by Moroccan filmmaker Roshdy Zem, has been entered for the Oscars 2012 in the category of best foreign language film, said a statement of Morocco's movie center (CCM). A selection commission, which held a meeting on Tuesday in Rabat under ...

Washington - "My Land", a documentary directed by Moroccan filmmaker Nabil Ayouch will be screened in the 5th "Boston Palestine Film Festival," to be held in October 2011, said organizers on Wednesday. In its fifth edition, the festival will feature "cre ...